PBX-ageing analysis with infrared spectroscopy
conference paper
Polymer based energetic materials (PBX's) are used more often for their stability and insensitivity to external influences. It is important to perform life-time studies on these types of materials to obtain a clear view of the changes within the material which lead to the loss in performance of the materials. For this a technique is needed to obtain information about the polymer as well as on the energetic material and the additives. For materials which are easily soluble, High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) and Size-Exclusion Chromatography (SEC) combined with a quantitative detector such as UV and refractive index detector (RI) are well known tools. For non-soluble materials, due to the polymer material being cross-linked provides us with a larger challenge. In this paper the analysis of un-aged and aged PBX materials, with a cross-linked polymer matrix, are performed with Fourier-Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) to obtain insight in the ageing of the material.
Topics
TNO Identifier
881888
Source title
39th International Annual Conference of ICT "Energetic Materials: Processing and Product Design", Karlsruhe, Germany, 24-27 June 2008
Pages
1-6
Files
To receive the publication files, please send an e-mail request to TNO Repository.