Publisher's Synopsis
This volume covers a broad spectrum of modern research, both experimental and theoretical, on energetic materials. It should be of interest to anyone involved in using, researching into or studying explosives, propellants or pyrotechnics.;The topics covered range from experimental studies on dislocations and the mechanisms of "hot spot" ignition to the physics and chemistry of fully developed detonations. New synthesis routes for energetic materials based on nitration by nitrogen (V) oxide are described which overcome the drawbacks of conventional approaches. This research should facilitate the synthesis of nitramine explosives and energetic binders. Significant advances have been made in understanding thermochemistry and reaction pathways using quantum chemical methods and this work has been complemented by sophisticated thermal heating techniques which, combined with FTIR spectroscopy, give information on the early stages of condensed phase chemistry.;New ideas are discussed for considering the behaviour of chemical species in a shock front, for performing "ab initio" molecular orbital calculations on simple molecules and for explaining how amines sensitize nitrocompounds. analytical and numerical work on equations of state and detonation allow performance of explosives to be predicted and assessed.
