Study of Plastic Explosives based on Attractive Cyclic Nitramines, Part II. Detonation Characteristics of Explosives with Polyfluorinated Binders

Abstract

Abstract A series of plastic bonded explosives (PBXs) based on Viton A and Fluorel binders were prepared using four nitramines, namely RDX (1,3,5‐trinitro‐1,3,5‐triazinane), β‐HMX (β‐1,3,5,7‐tetranitro‐1,3,5,7‐tetrazocane), BCHMX ( cis ‐1,3,4,6‐tetranitro‐octahydroimidazo‐[4,5‐d]imidazole), and ε‐HNIW (ε‐2,4,6,8,10,12‐hexanitro‐2,4,6,8,10,12‐hexaazaisowurtzitane). The detonation velocities, D , were determined. Detonation parameters were also calculated by means of modified Kamlet & Jacobs method, CHEETAH and EXPLO5 codes. In accordance with our expectations BCHMX based PBXs performed better than RDX based ones. The Urizar coefficient for Fuorel binder was also calculated.