Session U6: Shock Initiation II

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Chair: Steven Chidester, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Fairmont Orchid Hotel - Promenade I/II


Friday, June 29, 2007
8:00AM - 8:30AM

U6.00001: The Puzzle of Explosive Response to Shock: Complexity to Simplicity by Changing the Observational Scale.
Invited Speaker: Hugh James

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Friday, June 29, 2007
8:30AM - 8:45AM

U6.00002: Effect of Transverse Electric Field on Sensitivity of an 88{\%} by Weight HMX Based Energetic Material
Richard Lee , Jerry Forbes , Edward Palermo , William Wilson

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Friday, June 29, 2007
8:45AM - 9:00AM

U6.00003: Shock Initiation Thresholds for Insensitive High Explosives
Hugh James

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Friday, June 29, 2007
9:00AM - 9:15AM

U6.00004: A Study of SDT in an Ammonium Nitrate (NH$_{4}$ NO$_{3})$ Based Granular Explosive
Malcolm Burns , Peter Taylor

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Friday, June 29, 2007
9:15AM - 9:30AM

U6.00005: Shock Reactivity Study on Standard and Reduced Sensitivity RDX of Different Particle Size Distributions
Nicholas McGregor , Allen Lindfors

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Friday, June 29, 2007
9:30AM - 9:45AM

U6.00006: Initiation of Explosives From the Bow Shock of a Supersonic Penetrator
Eric N. Ferm

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Friday, June 29, 2007
9:45AM - 10:00AM

U6.00007: Coherency for the Critical Condition of DDT and SDT in Energetic Materials
Huan Shi , Tan Xiangqian

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