The Influence of Temperature in the Range from 77 k to 338 k on the Detonation Velocity of RDX/TNT 60/40

✍ Scribed by K. Hollenberg

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1980
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 249 KB
• Volume: 5
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0721-3115
• DOI: 10.1002/prep.19800050405

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

The detonation velocity of rods made of RDX/TNT 60/40 was determined with high accuracy in the temperature range from 77 K to 338 K. It was found out that the detonation velocity decreases with increasing temperature. To explain this thermodynamically unusual behaviour it is assumed that the effect of the increase of the detonation velocity with increasing temperature is superposed on the decrease caused by the simultaneous decreasing density of the explosive.