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http://dx.doi.org/10.5762/KAIS.2020.21.11.595

A Study of Life about Naturally Aged Nitrocellulose by Storage  

Kim, Dong-seong (Defense Reliability Research Center, Defense Agency for Technology and Quality)
Jin, Hong-Sik (Defense Reliability Research Center, Defense Agency for Technology and Quality)
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Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society / v.21, no.11, 2020 , pp. 595-601 More about this Journal
Abstract
During the safety inspection of nitrocellulose-made explosive containers stored for more than 10 years, cracks were found in the containers. Therefore, a failure cause analysis test was performed. First, the cause of failure through the failure tree analysis was conducted to select the factors that influenced failure. The changes in the properties of the container caused by the acceleration of the reaction were found to be the cause of the failure by confirming the influence on the environment and internal/external factors that may occur during storage. To confirm this, environmental tests, such as thermal shock test and vacuum thermal stability test, were performed using a naturally aged container to analyze the cause of failure, and an accelerated aging test was performed to reproduce the failure. Through this, the chemical reaction was accelerated by heat and charge, as in the result of the fault tree analysis, and it was confirmed that the physical properties of the container were changed. In addition, the service life of the container was estimated using the Arrhenius model for the storage life due to thermal aging.
Keywords
Nitrocellulose; Aging; Life Prediction; Accelerated Aging Test; Environmental Test; Vacuum Thermal Stability Test; Arrhenius Model;
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