Insensitive high energy explosive compositions

US4842659A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army · US

Inventors

• Mark Mezger · Mount Bethel, US
• Bernard Strauss · Rockaway, US
• Sam Moy · Parsippany, US
• Joseph L. Prezelski · Jermyn, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 22, 1988
• Grant date: Jun 27, 1989
• Expiry date: Apr 22, 2008

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C06B25/34
• WIPO field: Basic materials chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A high energy explosive composition containing 80 to 95 percent HMX having low susceptibility to sympathetic detonation. The composition also contains between 2.9 to 10 percent cellulose acetate butyrate, 10 to 17.1 percent of 1:1 mixture of bis 2,2-dinitropropyl acetate and bis 2,2-dinitropropyl formal, and 0.5 percent tri (dioctyl phosphato) titanate.