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Behavior of Minimum Signature Propellants During Impact ITests on Insensitive…

Award Information

Agency:
Department of Defense 		Branch:
Army 		Award ID:
97647 		Program Year/Program:
2010 / SBIR
Agency Tracking Number:
A093-128-0105 		Solicitation Year:
N/A 		Solicitation Topic Code:
Army 09-128 		Solicitation Number:
N/A
Small Business Information
IllinoisRocstar LLC
P. O. Box 3001 P. O. Box 3001 Champaign, IL -
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Woman-Owned: No
Minority-Owned: No
HUBZone-Owned: No
 
Phase 1
Fiscal Year: 2010
Title: Behavior of Minimum Signature Propellants During Impact ITests on Insensitive Munitions
Agency / Branch: DOD / ARMY
Contract: W31P4Q-10-C-0182
Award Amount: $70,000.00
 

Abstract:

Predicting the violent behavior of energetic materials in accident scenarios is an important issue for the analysis of the performance of explosives and solid rocket propellants. We propose a computational program to predict the shock initiation behavior and subsequent energy release that leads to violent reaction of minimum signature propellants under several impact threat conditions. The modeling effort will focus on multiscale, multiphysics simulations using verified and validated models on high-performance parallel computer platforms. Both double-base and composite-modified double-base propellants will be examined. A critical component of our effort will consist of highly resolved mesoscale modeling calculations. These are crucial to bridging the enormous gap between device-scale models that are often based on empirical descriptions rather than first principles, and atomistic scale models that take into account the underlying discrete nature of matter, but are often difficult to relate to engineering-scale results. Our multiscale, chemo-thermo-mechanical approach to modeling and simulation of shock physics will explicitly address physical features and phenomena at the macro- (device), meso- (aggregate of crystals) and micro-scales (individual crystal) in an integrated manner.

Principal Investigator:

Mark Brandyberry
Chief Operating Officer
2177662567
mdbrandy@illinoisrocstar.com

Business Contact:

William Dick
Chief Executive Officer
2174170885
green@psicorp.com
Small Business Information at Submission:

IllinoisRocstar LLC
60 Hazelwood Drive P. O. Box 3001 Champaign, IL 61826

EIN/Tax ID: 208533123
DUNS: N/A
Number of Employees:
Woman-Owned: No
Minority-Owned: No
HUBZone-Owned: No