The Physics and Chemistry of Modified Explosives, November 4th – 8th, 2007.
4th WORKSHOP ON EXPLOSIVE BEHAVIORS: PRESENTATIONS
| SUNDAY | ||
| 5:00 – 7:00 | Reception and registration | |
| MONDAY | ||
| 8:45 | Jim Kennedy | Welcome |
| 9:00 | Bill Wilson | The DTRA Advanced Energetics Program; Past, Present and Future |
| 9.45 | Fan Zhang | Limits of Thermobaric Explosives |
| 10:30 | Coffee | |
| 11:00 | Marcia Cooper | Understanding Enhanced Blast Explosives: A Multi-Scale Challenge |
| 11:30 | Bryce Tappan | Thermobaric Explosives Development at LANL Utilizing Novel Materials |
| 12:00 | Lunch | |
| 1:30 | Joel Carney | Spectroscopy in the Post-Detonation Combustion of Fuel-Rich Explosives |
| 2:00 | Dave Moore | On the Pressing of Submicron-sized Gamma HMX |
| 2:30 | Coffee | |
| 3:00 | Mark Short | Modeling non-ideal explosive behavior |
| 3:30 | Steve Todd | Damage-Initiated Reaction Model for PBX and Cast Explosives |
| 4:00 | Gert Scholtes | Impact Damage of Conventional Explosives in Comparison with PBXs |
| 6:00 | Dinner | |
| 7:30 | Topical discussion | The hazards of modified and conventional explosives |
| TUESDAY | ||
| 8:45 | Steve Son | Overview of Nanoenergetic Materials |
| 9:30 | Tim Foley | New MIC Formulations with Reduced Sensitivity and Improved Performance |
| 10:00 | Jason Jouet | Preparation and Passivation of Nano-Aluminum for Energetics Applications |
| 10:30 | Coffee | |
| 11:00 | Craig Tarver | Experimental and Modelling Challenges in Understanding Insensitive High Explosive Reaction Propagation |
| 11:30 | Joe Backofen | Modeling Detonation of Condensed Explosives Using Two Propulsive Stages |
| 12:00 | Richard J. Lee | Assessment of Post Detonation Aluminum Combustion Efficiency – Pressed Versus Cast-Cured Explosives |
| 12:30 | Lunch | |
| 6:00 | Dinner | |
| 7:30 | Topical discussion | Blast from aluminized and thermobaric explosives |
| WEDNESDAY | ||
| 8:45 | David Chavez | Historic and Current Research in Energetic Materials Synthesis at Los Alamos |
| 9:30 | Phil Pagoria | Synthesis of Energetic Material at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
| 10:00 | Michelle Pantoya | New Experiments that Characterize the Fast Oxidation and Energy Transport of Reactive Materials |
| 10:30 | Coffee | |
| 11:00 | Valery Levitas | Melt Dispersion Mechanism for Fast Reaction of Nanothermites |
| 11:30 | Ed Dreizin | Fully dense, micron-sized, energetic nanocomposite powders: preparation, characterization, and reaction mechanisms |
| 12:00 | Lunch | |
| 1:30 | Larry Hill | Peel-off Case Failure in Cookoff Explosions |
| 2:00 | Gary Parker | Interconnected Porosity in Thermally Damaged PBX 9501 and Its Effects on Gas Permeation in the Pre- and Post-ignition Regimes |
| 2:30 | Coffee | |
| 3:00 | Jon Zucker | Thermal effects on the initiation and performance of non-electric detonators |
| 3:30 | Peter Dickson | Cookoff of commercial explosives |
| 6:00 | Reception | |
| 7:00 | Banquet | |
| THURSDAY | ||
| 8:45 | David Frost | The Nature of Heterogeneous Blast Explosives |
| 9:30 | Dennis Wilson | Multifunctional Energetic Materials |
| 10:00 | Coffee | |
| 10:30 | Richard Ames | Development and Characterization of Multiphase Blast Explosives |
| 11:00 | Kibong Kim | Effects of Particle Damage during Detonation of Thermobarics on Subsequent Reactions |
| 11:30 | Final discussion | |
| 12:30 | Lunch |