Insensitive Munitions （IM） ： A Key Aspect of Improved Munitions Safety

作     者：Duncan Watt Eric Deschambault Patrick Touze 

作者机构：Munitions Safety Information Analysis Center （ MSIAC ） NATO HQ Brussels B-1110 Belgium 

出 版 物：《含能材料》 (Chinese Journal of Energetic Materials)

年 卷 期：2006年第14卷第5期

页      面：323-329页

核心收录：

学科分类：0817[工学-化学工程与技术] 08[工学] 082601[工学-武器系统与运用工程] 0807[工学-动力工程及工程热物理] 0826[工学-兵器科学与技术] 0805[工学-材料科学与工程（可授工学、理学学位）] 0703[理学-化学] 0802[工学-机械工程] 0811[工学-控制科学与工程] 0801[工学-力学（可授工学、理学学位）] 0702[理学-物理学] 

主　　题：Insensitive Munitions (IM) safety material science crystalline computer simulation 

摘      要：The development of Insensitive Munitions (IM) has been progressing for over three decades. Ever since the highly publicized US Navy aircraft carrier accidents in the 1960s to 1980s, there has been a growing recognition of the value of IM. Reminders of the need for IM have been provided all too often in the form of accidents, such as experienced by the US Army at Camp Doha and the prevalence of attacks on military installations around the world. The process for developing IM has improved over the years as technology for mitigating the consequences of accidental initiation has emerged. Early IM developments were based upon replacement of the traditional TNT-based explosives, with their high vulnerability, with reduced vulnerability PBXs. This led to significant improvements, such as that observed with the replacement of H-6 with PBXN-109 in the US Navy Mk82 GP bomb. From the early 1990s, the use of a complete systems approach was highlighted as the optimum method to achieve IM compliance while maintaining or enhancing operational performance. The use of a systems approach has resulted in the fielding of a number of munition systems with significant IM properties. The challenge for the future is to continue the development and fielding of improved performance IM munitions with limited funding for research and the high cost of introducing new ingredients into energetic formulations. A key development to allow continued progress to occur is the introduction of improved versions of current explosive ingredients. The attention focused in the past few years on forms of RDX with reduced shock sensitivity has highlighted the possibility of improving well-known materials. In the near future, the application of materials technology may provide improved versions of other important crystalline energetic materials currently in production or advanced development, including HMX, NTO, CL-20 and ADN and help advance the development of further explosive ingredients such as FOX-7 and LL