Insensitive Munitions Booster Explosives

This proposal will develop a booster explosive formulation with a polymetric binder system that will show output improvement over the PBXN-5 explosive performance. The development of the formulation in Phase I will include CL-20 and the polymetric binder system HyTemp 4454. Other binder systems will also be considered if they show a technological advantage. The formulation proposed for research & development in Phases' I & II of this proposal will be evaluated and tested to include a reduction of volume to be used in smaller munitions. The proposed formulation will provide a 15 % increase or better goal in output for the booster formulation without compromising the hazard classification. The team we have assembled is particularly suited to perform this work. This proposal is a joint venture between Radiation Effects Research Associates and Maegerlein Materials Investigations. Our mentoring larger business is ATK Thiokol which holds many patents for explosive formulations. Mr. Maegerlein is the Principle Investigator and has many years of experience in the testing and analysis of chemical explosive formulations. ATK Thiokol has the facilities for manufacturing and testing as described by the SBIR topic.