size reduction of high energy materials such as 1, 3, 5, 7-tetranitro- 1, 3, 5, 7-tetraaza cyclooctane (hmx) has considerable influences on improving their explosive characteristics. in this study, nanosized hmx par­ticles were produced using ultrasonically reprecipitation method by applying water as a safe and accessible antisolvent instead of unsafe conventional methods. sem photographs revea...

The electrostatic hazards of nitramine explosives (RDX, HMX) were assessed in this paper. The resistivities of different particle-size RDX and HMX were tested by a device designed and manufactured according to the standard ISO/ IEC 80079-20-2:2016. This work shows that the resistivities of uncompacted RDX and HMX increase as the particle size decreases. Charging characteristics test experiments...

Size reduction of high energy materials such as 1, 3, 5, 7-tetranitro- 1, 3, 5, 7-tetraaza cyclooctane (HMX) has considerable influences on improving their explosive characteristics. In this study, nanosized HMX par‌ticles were produced using ultrasonically reprecipitation method by applying water as a safe and accessible antisolvent instead of unsafe conventional methods. SEM photographs revea...

Fused deposition modeling (FDM) as one of the additive manufacturing (AM) technologies has been widely used in various industries to fabricate products with complex structures; however, application FDM energetic materials (EMs) was still less common. In this work, effect HMX solid content and particle size on viscosity molten TNT/HMX explosives were investigated. Then, computational fluid dynam...

We present preliminary work on the formation of HONO in condensed-phase HMX for the three pure polymorphic phases. Our results show that the energetics of the intermolecular hydrogen transfer (to form HONO on an adjacent molecule) is more favorable in d-HMX than in a-HMX and b-HMX. The energetics of this intermolecular hydrogen transfer process follow the same trends of HMX sensitivity, where d...

Atomistic simulations were used to calculate the isothermal elastic properties for b-, a-, and d-octahydro-1,3,5,7-tetranitro-1,3,5,7-tetrazocine ~HMX!. The room-temperature isotherm for each polymorph was computed in the pressure interval 0<p<10.6 GPa and was used to extract the initial isothermal bulk modulus Ko and its pressure derivative using equations of state employed previously in exper...

The thermal decomposition mechanism of a newly designed composite material KClO3-HMX (KC-HMX) is investigated by combined TG-DSC-FTIR technique and T/Jump in-situ thermolysis cell/FTIR (T/Jump FTIR) technique.It is shown that KC-HMX began to decompose at about 266°C without melting, and the fast stage of mass loss at the temperature range of 268.4~290.1°C is considered to be the result of the t...

Dihydroxylammonium 5,50-bistetrazole-1,10-diolate (TKX-50) is a newly synthesized explosive with excellent comprehensive properties. Cyclotetramethylenetetranitramine (HMX) is currently one of the highest energy explosives used around the world. TKX-50/HMX cocrystal can improve the defects of TKX-50 and HMX and vastly expand their application scope. TKX-50 and HMX supercell structures and TKX-5...

NO2 fission is a vital factor for 1,3,5-Trinitroperhydro-1,3,5-triazine (RDX) and octahydro-1,3,5,7-tetranitro-1,3,5,7-tetrazocine (HMX) decomposition. In this study, the geometry of the gas-phase RDX and HMX molecules was optimized, and the bond order and the bond dissociation energy of the N-N bonds were examined. Moreover, the rate constants of the gas-phase RDX and HMX conformers, concernin...