The electrostatic initiation of nondispersed pyrotechnics

The processing, properties and use of the pyrotechnic mixture-titanium subhydride/potassium perchlorate

“…The main concern was the accidental initiation of these materials by electrostatic discharge (ESD) from a human body. Human body electrostatic sensitility was defined as initiation from by an electrostatic pulse from a 600 picofarad capacitor charged to 20 kilovolts and discharged through a 500 ohm series resistance. It is called the standard man ESD test.…”

Friction, impact, and electrostatic discharge sensitivities of energetic materials

“…Although Bruceton statistics can indicate the "all-fire" and "no-fire" levels, people have taken the Bruceton test to task for its admitted inaccuracy in predicting the standard deviation [2]. In addition, Mother nature's uncertainty and the equipment dependence of the specific test account for relatively few values reported in literature [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]. For our purposes of comparison among the energetic materials that we have experience with (such as PETtl) , the 50% probability threshold extracted from Bruceton data can be of service.…”

Titanium subhydride potassium perchlorate (TiH1.65/KClO4) burn rates from hybrid closed bomb-strand burner experiments.

“…Historically, titanium potassium perchlorate (Ti/KClO 4 ) (Massis, 1996) and titanium hydride potassium perchlorate (TiH 2 /KClO 4 ) (Sorensen et al, 2006;Massis et al, 1975) have been extensively studied. More recently, titanium subhydrides (TiH x ) with equivalent hydrogen concentrations of 0.45 < x <1.9 have been used in more applications (Massis, 1996;Collins et al, 1980). During the late 1980's and coinciding with the powder characterization activities on these subhydrides (Erickson et al, 1986(Erickson et al, , 1989Erickson, 1984;Rogers, Jr. et al, 8 89;Begeal and Stanton, 1982;Baer and Shepherd, 1983), the majority of the burn rate studies on TiH x /KClO 4 were carried out by two sets of researchers.…”