PBX-9502 Shock Sensitivity Correlation with Specific Heat and Reactive Temperature Magnitudes

This work is a supplementary follow-on to papers [1 and 2], presented in two previous SCCM conferences, that related plane impact shock sensitivity of CHNO energetic materials to specific heat (C$_{p}$ per average atom) magnitude and reactive temperature (T$_R )$ conditions. More specifically, plane impact shock energy input that is equal to the thermal vibratory energy increment (the area under the C$_{p}$ versus temperature data curve between an experimental temperature, T$_{EXP} $, and a reactive temperature) is sufficient to cause shock induced reactions, up to and including detonation, in CHNO energetic materials. This statement is demonstratively verified at four different test temperatures for PBX-9502 in this proposed paper. \begin{enumerate} \item Billingsley, J. P., paper in Shock Compression of Condensed Matter -- 1995, AIP Conference Proceedings 370, Part I, pages 429 -- 432. \item Billingsley, J. P., paper in Shock Compression of Condensed Matter -- 1999, AIP Conference Proceedings, 505, Part II, pages 899 -- 902. \end{enumerate}