A program of fundamental research on explosives at Los Alamos

Conference · Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1990

OSTI ID:7166322

Rivera, T

The Fundamental Research on Explosives (FRE) program was initiated as a five-year program beginning in FY 1982. It was established as a Laboratory-wide coordinated theoretical and experimental effort to gain a fundamental understanding of detonation behavior using state-of-the-art techniques not previously applied to explosives. During the five years a variety of significant scientific achievements was made in both theory and experiment by developing new methods and techniques to study equation-of-state (EOS), shock initiation, and detonation phenomena. The FRE program comprised scientific experimental and theoretical investigations into the chemical and mechanical processes leading to and subsequently sustaining detonation of the simple liquid prototypical explosive, nitric oxide (NO). The goals of the FRE program were to understand the energetics and chemistry of initiation and detonation in liquid NO and to compare experimental results with existing theory. The knowledge gained and the techniques developed have led not only to advances in explosives science but in the theoretical and experimental sciences in general. This report is a brief overview of the FRE achievements during the 5 year program.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: DOE/DP
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-36
• OSTI ID: 7166322
• Report Number(s): LA-UR-90-255; CONF-900394-1; ON: DE90006509
• Resource Relation: Conference: 1990 national symposium of the Society of Mexican-American Engineers and Scientists (MAES), Albuquerque, NM (USA), 28-31 Mar 1990
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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