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AGENDA
TUESDAY NOVEMBER 28, 2000
Session 1: Opening Session
Co Chairs: Dr. Kim Christianson and Mr.
Paul Braithwaite
8:00 Welcome and Introduction
Mr. Braithwaite/Dr. Christianson
8:40 2001 Symposium Update - Henri Miermont
9:10 Hazard
Classification Issues - Dr. Ken Grahm
9:30 Hazard
Classification Reduction Assessment - Maj. Ernest A.
Staubs
10:20 Insensitive
RDX - Mr. Alain Freche
10:40 Evaluation
of SNPE I-RDX as a Solid Propellant Ingredient - Mr. Richard
Hatcher
11:00 Scale-up
of Energetic Materials Using Prinicples of Model Based Control -
Dr. Robert Wardle
11:20 New
Insensitive High Explosives - Mr. Jorgen Sandstrom
Session 2a: Systems I
Co Chairs: Dr. Ken Hartman and Mr. Alain
Davenas
1:00 Insensitive Medium Calibre Gun Ammunition For The Royal Navy -
Phillip J. Cheese
1:20 Fast
Cook-Off Improvement Of The MK 66 Rocket Motor - Steven S.
Kim
1:40 The Development Of An Insensitive High Explosive Mortar
Cartridge - Mr. John Niles
2:00 Melt
Pour Loading of PAX-21 into the 60 mm M720E1 Mortar Projectile -
Mr. Scott Faluotico
Session 2b: Testing I
2:20 Shock Sensitivity of Propellants - Mr. Scott Dawley
3:10 IM
Testing of Two Aluminized Boost Propellants - Mr. Herman
Weyland
3:30 Low
Order Explosive Response (LOER) - Mr. John Delaney
3:50 Paste
Explosive Based On Rounded HMX: Rheology, Sensitivity and Mechanical
Properties - Ms. Tamar Kaully
4:10 Dynamic
Mechanical Signatures of Aged LX-17 Plastic Bonded Explosive - Dr.
Mark Hoffman
WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 29, 2000
Session 3a: Systems II
Co Chairs: Dr. Patrick Goguen and Mr. Steve
Nicolich
8:30 Injection loading of highly filled PBX materials - Mr. Kirk
Newman
8:50 Insensitive
Munitions Analysis For 120 mm Tank Ammunition - Mr. Bill Ingold
9:10 Design/Analysis of an Insensitive Maverick Lightweight Warhead -
Dr. Carl Nelson
9:30 105 mm
DPICM, M915 Insensitive Munitions Testing - Mr. Don Geiss
Systems 3b: Policy/Direction
10:20 Applying
a Systematic Approach to Risk and Cost Evaluation - Mr.Robert
Ford
10:40 Qualification
Status Of Military Explosives Manufactured At The Holston Army Ammunition
Plant - Mr. Andrew Wilson
11:00 Mixing
Unit Risk 1.2 Items - Mr. Jean Goliger
11:20 Classifying
and Characterizing In-Process Energetic Material Using Laboratory and
Small-Scale Standardized Tests - Mr. Thadeus Speed
Session 4a: Systems III
Co Chairs: Mr. Steven Struck and Ms. Karen
Burrows
1:00 Reutilization of Downloaded Supplementary Charges fof the
Production of 155 mm HE M795, M107 and 105 mm M927, M913 Projectiles - Ms.
Sheri Hopewell
1:20 Design
and Testing of Underwater IM Explosive Charge - Dr. Tamar
Yarom
1:40 Accelerated
Aging of the M74 Artillery Fire Air Burst Simulator - Dr. Eric
Bixon
2:00 EIDS Booster Assessment for CBEMS Series - Mr. B.
Nouguez
Session 4b: Analysis
2:50 The Utilization of Thermochemical Codes to Design
Explosively-Formed Chemical Environments - Dr. Partick Gougen
3:10 Calculation
of Detonation Properties for Aluminized Explosives with JAGUAR -
Dr. Ernest Baker
3:30 Testing
and Analysis of the Survivability of Shaped Charges in Bullet Impact
Condition - Dr. Tamar Yarom
3:50 The Intense Pressure and
Friction Test - Mr. Gregory Glenn
4:10 Improvements
in the Processing and Performance of Various Crystalline Forms of
Nitroguanidine - Dr. Ted Sumrall
Track II Sessions
Session 3c: Energetic Materials I
Co Chairs: Mr. Ken Graham and Mr.
Patrick Lamy
8:30 Current
Strands of Research in DERA on the Chemistry of Energetic Materials and
Insensitive Munitions - Dr. Simon Philbin
8:50 Characterization
of Coating For Energetic Materials - Mr. Mark Mezger
9:10 Chemical
and Polymorphic Characterization of CL-20 - Dr. Guy Jacob
9:30
BDNPA/BDNPF
Shows Long Term Aging Stability - Mr. Renato Rindone
Session 3d: IM Propellants
10:20 IM Reduced Smoke Propellants
For Air-Launched Missiles - Dr. Michael Dewey
10:40 Development
of Passivated Phrophoric Metal Powders (Halfnium and Zirconium) with
Reduced Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) Sensitivity - Mr. Curtis
Meyers
11:00 IM
Aluminized Propellant for Tactical Boosters - Dr. Ingvar
Wallace
11:20 Advanced
Work On Increasing The Performance Of Gun Propellants - Mr. Walter
Langlotz
Session 4c: Energetic Materials Recovery and Reprocessing
Co
Chairs: Mr. Al Smith and DERA Representative
1:00 Reclaimed HMX From Class 1.1 Solid Rocket Propellants - Dr. Louis
Cannizzo
1:20 Recovery
of Energetic Components From Propellant With Hydrolyzable/Degradable
Binders - Dr. Donald Tzeng
1:40 The
Influence Of Reprocessing On The Characteristics of EX-101
Propellant - Mr. Paul Braithwaite
2:00 Process
Development And Production Scale Up Of New Explosives Compositions At
Holston Army Ammunition Plant - Mr. Nigel House
Session 4d: Energetic Materials and Formulations
2:50 Scale Up Of A New Method To Manufacture TATB - Mr. Andrew
Wilson
3:10 Green
Rocket Propellant Technologies Based On New Energetic Thermoplastic
Elastomers - Dr. Michael Dewey
3:30 Small-Scale Hazards
Analysis of a Low Cost, Minimum Smoke Propellant - Dr. Laura
Martins
3:50 2,3-Dimethyl-2,3-Dinitrobutand (DMDNB) Process Development
and Scale-Up at Holston Army Ammunition Plant - Mr. Michael Irvin
4:10
High
Performance, Insensitive HTPE Propellants - Mr. Ted Comfort
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 30, 2000
Session 5a: Insensitive High Explosives
Co Chairs: Dr. Mark Hoffman
and Ms. France Beaupre
8:30 An
Insensitive Alternative To The Pressed Explosive LX-14 - Dr.
Kenneth Lee
8:50 Development and Testing of Navy's New Insensitive
Explosives, PBXIH-134 and PBXIH-135 - Mr. Joseph Chang
9:10 A
Candidate of New Insensitive High Explosive, MTNI - Dr. Jin Rai
Cho
9:30 Development
or Cure Cast High Loaded HMX IHEs - Mr. Daniel Cohen
Session 5b: Energetic Materials II
10:20 Development of Very Energetic Binder System Ingredients (PGN and
DGTN) - Dr. Louis Cannizzo
10:40 A
New Energetic Mixed Formal Plasticizer, using Diformal as Eutectic
Material - Dr. Jeong Kook Kim
11:00 Calculated Physical
Parameters of Ammonium Nitrate Eutectic Melt Cast Explosives - Mr. Ken
Hawko
11:20 Melt
Casting of Ammonium Dinitramide (ADN) - Dr. Aron Hahma
11:40
New Plastic Explosives with Improved Handling and Survivability
Characteristics - Dr. Ron
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