Industry/University Cooperative Research Center for Energetic Materials

该奖项将继续资助新墨西哥矿业与技术研究所的工业/大学高能材料合作研究中心。中心的主要研究重点是含能材料的安全性。在美国制造、运输、储存和使用的这些材料的数量构成了大规模爆炸或引爆的特别危险。目前的其他研究工作是针对减少大爆炸、火灾危险对环境的影响，以及提高高能材料的安全性。具体的研究课题包括爆轰和冲击起爆，开发小型试验以确定含能材料在开发、制造、运输、储存和使用过程中的危害，含能材料的热危害，含能材料的安全工程，最小燃烧速率和压力，以及点火能量。本奖项提供额外资金支持一名本科女学生在中心进行项目3“小规模安全测试方法”的研究。学生将评估在40毫克样品中测试的爆炸物样品的反应水平与在大药量中观察到的反应暴力之间的关系。

ABSTRACT EEC-9525881 Persson This award is to continue funding for the Industry/University Cooperative Research Center on Energetic Materials at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology. The main research focus of the Center is on the safety of energetic materials. The quantities of these materials being manufactured, transported, stored, and used in the United States poses particular risks for mass explosion or detonation. Other current research efforts are directed towards reducing the environmental effects of large explosions, fire hazards, and increased safety of energetic materials. Specific research topics include detonation and shock initiation, development of small-scale tests to determine the hazards during development, manufacture, transportation, storage, and use of energetic materials, thermal hazards of energetic materials, safety engineering of energetic materials, minimum burning rates and pressures, and ignition energies. Additional funding is provided in this award to support one undergraduate female student to conduct research performed on Project 3, Small Scale Safety Test Methods, in the Center. The student will evaluate the relationship between the level of response of explosives samples tested in 40 mg samples and the reaction violence observed in large charges.