Simulation of the PBX 9501 Self-Ignited Heavily Confined Cookoff Test
- Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
The PBX 9501 self-ignited thermally damaged explosive (SITX) test was carried out by Holmes et al. A 6-inch diameter sphere made of the PBX 9501 was heated inside a steel confinement vessel until it underwent a thermal explosion. This test provided measured temperature data that was used to define a boundary condition to carry out post-experiment finite element (FE) thermal simulations and comparisons of the FE thermal response with the experimental time to thermal ignition and internal temperature measurements at the center of the PBX 9501 sphere. Finite element models of this experiment were constructed using the heat transfer code Aria. A cookoff model for PBX 9501 was used to simulate the thermal decomposition of PBX 9501 and to predict the time to thermal ignition. An inverse heat conduction scheme was designed and applied to estimate a 1D temperature boundary condition.
- Research Organization:
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
- DOE Contract Number:
- 89233218CNA000001
- OSTI ID:
- 1810489
- Report Number(s):
- LA-UR--21-27018
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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