• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2017.05a
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• pp.462-468
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• 2017

KYP model is a pressure-based chemical kinetics that describes shock to detonation transition of energetic materials. In this research, the parameters of KYP model and JWL EOS for PETN-based explosive, namely PBXN-301, were determined. A series of unconfined rate stick tests and two dimensional hydrodynamic simulation were conducted to obtain the size effect behaviour of the explosive. As a result, it was confirmed that the parameters obtained from KYP modeling have more accuracy to predict the detonation velocities according to the inverse radius of PBXN-301 than the qualitatively obtained LLNL constitutive equations.

• International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.418-424
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• 2015

The chemical response of energetic materials is analyzed in terms of 1) the thermal decomposition under the thermal stimulus and 2) the reactive flow upon the mechanical impact, both of which give rise to an exothermic thermal runaway or an explosion. The present study aims at building a set of chemical kinetics that can precisely model both thermal and impact initiation of a heavily aluminized cyclotrimethylene-trinitramine (RDX) which contains 35% of aluminum. For a thermal decomposition model, the differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) measurement is used together with the Friedman isoconversional method for defining the frequency factor and activation energy in the form of Arrhenius rate law that are extracted from the evolution of product mass fraction. As for modelling the impact response, a series of unconfined rate stick data are used to construct the size effect curve which represents the relationship between detonation velocity and inverse radius of the sample. For validation of the modeled results, a cook-off test and a pressure chamber test are used to compare the predicted chemical response of the aluminized RDX that is either thermally or mechanically loaded.