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Quantitative Characterization of Internal Defects in RDX Crystals

โœ Scribed by Lionel Borne; Jean-Claude Patedoye; Christian Spyckerelle


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1999
Tongue
English
Weight
438 KB
Volume
24
Category
Article
ISSN
0721-3115

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โœฆ Synopsis


Size, shape, internal defects are very important properties of explosives crystals. These parameters play a role on both the explosive formulation processing and the detonic behavior of the explosive formulations. The use of explosive crystals free of solvent inclusions leads to decrease the shock sensitivity of cast explosive formulations. Many efforts for processing such high quality explosive crystals have been done and are still in progress. Qualitative observations of internal crystal defects can be performed by optical microscopy with matching refractive index. The purpose of this paper is to provide two accurate quantitative tools for internal crystal defects measurements. The ยฎrst method is based on accurate measurements of the crystal apparent density. The second method records the mass of the species entrapped in the crystal internal cavities. Experiments are performed on two RDX batches. The strong correlation recorded between the results of the two complementary methods validates the measurements. Apparent density measurements provide an accurate global characterization of the internal defects population of a crystal batch sorting the crystals in function of their apparent density. The second method is a tool to identify the species entrapped in the crystals.


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