Reactive Materials as Lethality Enhancers

The phase I objectives are to identify techniques to develop analytical, experimental and computational tools to engineer the structural energetic materials from micro- to nano- scales and compare their performance. This effort includes identification of techniques for synthesis of structural energetic materials with intermetallic mixtures or metal fuel/oxidant mixtures, reinforcements and binders. The synthesized materials will be compacted with binders and additional structural reinforcement to the desired density by two methods depending on the type of mixtures: static consolidation technique to desired structural shapes and the use of explosive consolidation whenever feasible.