Thermal decomposition of energetic materials

Brill, T. B., Brush, P. J., and Patil, D. G., Thermal Decomposition of Energetic Materials 60. Major Reaction Stages of a Simulated Burning Surface of NH4CIO4, Combustion and Flame, Vol. 94,1993, pp. 70-76. 

Beal, R. W., and Brill, T. B., Thermal Decomposition of Energetic Materials 78. Vibrational and Heat of Formation Analysis of Furazans by DFT, Propellants, Explosives, Pyrotechnics, Vol. 25, 2000, pp. 247-254. 

B.D. Roos, T.B. Brill, Thermal Decomposition of Energetic Materials 82. Correlations of Gaseous Products with the Composition of Aliphatic Nitrate Esters, Combust. Flame, 128(1-2) (2002) 181-190. Y. Oyumi,... 

T.B. Brill, K.J. James, Kinetics and Mechanisms of Thermal Decomposition of Nitroaromatic Explosives, J. Phys. Chem., 93 (1993) 2667-2692. ibid Thermal Decomposition of Energetic Materials. 61 Perfidy in the Amino-2,4,6-Trinitrobenzene Series of Explosives, J. Phys. Chem. 97(34) (1993) 8752-8758. ibid. Thermal Decomposition of Energetic Materials. 62 Reconciliation of the Kinetics and Mechanisms of TNT on the Time Scale from Microseconds to Hours, J. Phys. Chem., 97(34) (1993) 8759-8763. 

Y. Oyumi, T. B.Brill, Thermal Decomposition of Energetic Materials. 4. High-Rate, In Situ, Thermolysis of the Four, Six, and Eight Membered, Oxygen-Rich, Gem-Dinitroalkyl Cyclic Nitramines, TNAZ, DNNC, and HNDZ, Combust. Flame, 62 (1985) 225-231. 

G.K. Williams, T.B. Brill, Thermal Decomposition of Energetic Materials 68. Decomposition and Sublimation Kinetics of NTO and Evaluation of Prior Kinetic Data, J. Phys. Chem., 99 (1995) 12536-12539. 

B.C. Tappan, C.D. Incarvito, A.L. Rheingold, T.B. Brill, Thermal Decomposition of Energetic Materials 79 Thermal, Vibrational, and X-ray Structural Characterization of Metal Salts of Mono- and Di-Anionic 5-Nitraminotetrazole Thermochim. Acta, 384(2002) 113-120. 

Beach, S., Latham, D., Sidgwick, C., Hanna, M. and York, P. (1999). Control of the physical form of salmeterol xinofoate. Org. Process Res. Develop., 3, 370-6. [256] Beal, R. W. and Brill, T. B. (2000). Thermal decomposition of energetic materials 77. Behavior of N-N bridged bifurazan compounds on slow and fast heating. Propell Explos. Pyrot., 25, 241-6. [275]... 

Oyumi, Y. and Brill, T. B. (1985). Thermal decomposition of energetic materials. 6. Solid-phase transitions and the decomposition of 1,2,3-triaminoguanidinium nitrate. J. Phys. Chem., 89,4325-9. [284]... 

Oyumi, Y, Brill, T. B. and Rheingold, A. L. (1987 ) Thermal decomposition of energetic materials. A comparison of energetic materials and thermal reactivity of an acyclic and cyclic tetramethylenetetranitramine pair. Thermochim. Acta, 114, 209-25. [285]... 

Equilibrium MD simulations can provide valuable information about the thermal decomposition of energetic materials and can also enable the exploration of phenomena with time-scales much longer than in shockwaves. As an example, we studied the decomposition and subsequent reactions of RDX under various temperatmes (between T = 1200 K and T = 3000 K) and densities (at low density, 0.21 g/cm near normal density, 1.68 g/cm and under compression, 2.11 g/cm ), using MD with RDX interactions given by the reactive potential ReaxFF. 

Tappan BC, Brill TB (2003) Thermal decomposition of energetic materials 85 Cryogels of nanoscale hydrazinium perchlorate in resorcinol-formaldehyde. Propellants Explosives and Pyrotechnics 28(2) 72-76. Li J, Brill TB (2005) Nanostructured energetic composites of CL-20 and binders by sol-gel methods. Propellants Explosives and Pyrotechnics 31(1) 61-69. 

Providing structural information for sample components down to nanogram levels, TG/FT-IR applications include decomposition studies of polymers and laminates [ 123]. the analysis of coal, oil shales, and petroleum source rocks [124], [125], and the determination of activation energies [126] and thermal decomposition of energetic materials [127],... 

From what has been said so far, and from the published papers [6,7,9,14, 16,98,145,151-153] it follows that there exist logical relationships between the characteristics of low-temperature thermal decomposition and those of initiation and detonation, respectively. The homolytic character of primary fission in both the detonation and low-temperature thermal decompositions of energetic materials (for relevant quotations, see [9]) was a motive for Zeman to use the Evans-Polanyi-Semenov equation (E-P-S) [ 168] to study the chemical micro-mechanism governing initiation of energetic materials [9]. A relationship formally similar to the E-P-S equation can also be obtained by mutual comparison of the dependences shown in Figs. 2 and 17 it has the following form ... 

Oyumi, Y., Brill, T.B. and Rheingold, A.L. (1986) Thermal Decomposition of Energetic Materials 9. Polymorphism, Crystal Structures and the Thermal Decomposition of Polynitroazabicyclo [3.3.1Jnonanes Journal of Physical Chemistry 90, 2526-2533. 

While not necessarily exerting a profound influence of the thermal decomposition of energetic materials, many solid state and condensed phase phenomena occur with energetic materials that play a role in the manufacture, use, and efficacy of energetic materials. HMX and NH11NO3 are notorious for the problems created by their tendency toward polymorphism. Some of the condensed phase phenomena newly observed for energetic materials are described in this section. 

Palopoli, S.F. and Brill, T.B. (1990) Thermal Decomposition of Energetic Materials 43. Mechanistic Features of HMX Decomposition Inferred from the Effect of the Gas Environment on the Products to be published. 

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