WO1993021135A1 - Methods for providing explosives with exothermic reacting metal additions - Google Patents
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- C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
- C06—EXPLOSIVES; MATCHES
- C06D—MEANS FOR GENERATING SMOKE OR MIST; GAS-ATTACK COMPOSITIONS; GENERATION OF GAS FOR BLASTING OR PROPULSION (CHEMICAL PART)
- C06D5/00—Generation of pressure gas, e.g. for blasting cartridges, starting cartridges, rockets
- C06D5/06—Generation of pressure gas, e.g. for blasting cartridges, starting cartridges, rockets by reaction of two or more solids
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- C06—EXPLOSIVES; MATCHES
- C06B—EXPLOSIVES OR THERMIC COMPOSITIONS; MANUFACTURE THEREOF; USE OF SINGLE SUBSTANCES AS EXPLOSIVES
- C06B33/00—Compositions containing particulate metal, alloy, boron, silicon, selenium or tellurium with at least one oxygen supplying material which is either a metal oxide or a salt, organic or inorganic, capable of yielding a metal oxide
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- C06—EXPLOSIVES; MATCHES
- C06B—EXPLOSIVES OR THERMIC COMPOSITIONS; MANUFACTURE THEREOF; USE OF SINGLE SUBSTANCES AS EXPLOSIVES
- C06B43/00—Compositions characterised by explosive or thermic constituents not provided for in groups C06B25/00 - C06B41/00
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- C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
- C06—EXPLOSIVES; MATCHES
- C06C—DETONATING OR PRIMING DEVICES; FUSES; CHEMICAL LIGHTERS; PYROPHORIC COMPOSITIONS
- C06C15/00—Pyrophoric compositions; Flints
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- the present invention relates to a novel field of use for certain so-called mechanical alloys as defined below, namely as additional energy in explosives of the most varying types.
- the present invention is applicable to both propellants for missile and artillery purposes and to all types of explosives and pyrotechnical charges.
- One precondition for this novel field of use for the so-called mechanical alloys under consideration here is that these consist of components which react exothermically with one another when they, by an intermetallic alloy reaction, together form a fusible alloy.
- mechanical alloys is here taken to signify a less well-known group of metallurgical compositions which share a common method of production and general configuration.
- the mechanical alloys may be seen as fine-grained solid dispersions produced by grinding or milling together of two or more already initially relatively fine-grained metallic materials, carbon being equivalent to a metal in this context.
- the grinding or milling may take place in a ball mill, a batch mill or the like and be carried out as high or low energy grinding.
- the grinding or milling together of the components included may further take place applying any optional proportions, without due consideration to those proportions in which the components included would normally form fusible alloys.
- a mechanical alloy to be formed is that at least one of the components included therein is a ductile metal, by which is taken to signify a metal which is pliable in its normal state.
- ductile metals mention might be made of aluminium, titanium and nickel.
- mechanical alloys designates a product which is ground or milled together and consists of two or more metals, this designation is not wholly irrelevant, since at least heavy metals, i.e. metals heavier than iron, which form fusible alloys with one another are most often not dissolved in one another other than within relatively narrow temperature ranges and outside of these ranges deposit in the form of crystals which lie closely adjacent one another.
- mechanical alloys will have the same type of microstructure as such fusible alloys, but with the difference that they are obtained in finely- divided form. In the grinding oi milling together of the components
- SUBSTITU included i a mechanical alloy the first result is a crushing of the particles included, resulting in an increasingly fine-grained product which, however, after a particle minimum begins to form agglomerates according as fine particles of the materials included begin to be baked together to form composite particles. Granted, these composite particles will initially be crushed in their turn, but if no special measures are adopted, a progressive fusion will take place between the components included in the agglomerate as the temperature in the material being ground rises to the fusion temperature of the components. As a result of this mutual fusion, there will thus be obtained a progressive material accumulation of increasingly harder and increasingly larger particles which are more difficult to crush and which also give rise to a progressive material accumulation on the inside of the grinding apparatus itself.
- the mechanical alloys are obtained in the form of granules which may have a mean diameter of up towards a few millimetres (1-2 mm) and the particle size of the subcomponents included therein of between 1 and 5 ⁇ m.
- the mechanical alloys under consideration here may not, in connection with the present invention, be fused to any great extent.
- certain specific additives which form a liquid or solid material film over at least the particles of one of the materials included.
- stearic acid which, together with, for instance, aluminium gives aluminium stearate and, in such instance, provides an extremely good protective membrane on, for example, aluminium.
- the quantity of additive of the above-intimated type which must be added on production of the mechanical alloys employed according to the present invention varies, of course, somewhat depending upon the type of additive, but, in general terms, this quantity should probably not exceed one weight per cent calculated on all components included, in the mechanical alloy.
- the quantity of ground additive must be minimized to the greatest possible extent, since its presence entails that the metal components will be separated by a thin material film which impedes the formation of the exothermic molten phase alloy.
- the fusion between the particles included in the mechanical alloys can, in addition to using additives of the above-discussed type, be limited to some degree by carrying out the grinding or milling together under continuous cooling.
- Another method of preventing or at least restricting the fusion between the metal particles in the mechanical alloy is to carry out the grinding or milling together in an indifferent grinding liquid such as water, glycols or possibly oils.
- the grinding or milling together may need to be carried out in a protective gas (e.g. n 2 ) atmosphere.
- the grinding liquid may subsequently be removed from the finished mechanical alloy by extraction.
- the employment of a grinding liquid in itself need not exclude the addition of the above-discussed grinding additives, for example in the form of stearic acid.
- the use of grinding liquid and/or protective gas atmosphere may be a safety requirement in the production of such mechanical alloys as readily may give rise to fire or explosions.
- the present invention thus relates to a novel field of use for so-called mechanical alloys of the above-defined type, namely as additional energy in the explosives, in which they, by corresponding to specific metal additives of the type described in SE-A-900372 -3 and SE-A-9002723-5 which, on combustion of the explosive, give rise to exothermic temperature-elevating intermetallic alloy reactions.
- SE-A-900372 -3 and SE-A-9002723-5 which, on combustion of the explosive, give rise to exothermic temperature-elevating intermetallic alloy reactions.
- the mechanical alloys not only offer metal particles of ⁇ size, they also provide access to metal mixtures consisting of a plurality of metal particles of this ⁇ size which have been milled together to form granules in which the metal particles which are to react exothermically and intermetallically with one another on combustion of the explosive also lie, in principle, at atom distance from one another.
- PETN pentyl or penta erytrithol tetranitrate
- TATB trinitro-amino-trinitrobenzene
- NTO 3-Nitro-l,2,4-Triazole-5-One
- TNT trinitrotoluene
- Alkaline earth metals Barium plus antigen, vismuth or tin
- Aluminium Aluminium plus copper, calcium, boron, titanium or zirconium, chromium, manganese, iron, cobalt, nickel, palladium and platinum.
- Intermetallic explosives (in theory and in practice) By calculating the effect of admixture of intermetallic reactants in high energy explosives, these mixtures will show a poorer theoretical energy yield, since the quantity of explosive is reduced.
- RDX/Mn/Al system (Hexogen/Manganese/Aluminium ⁇ RDX (Hexogen) contains a total of 1360 kcal/kg in energy, by adding (replacing) 40% of RDX with the alloy metals manganese and aluminium, the total energy effect of the mixture will be reduced to 866 kcal/kg.
- the alloy reaction Zr+2B has a total energy of 690 kcal/kg, a 40% admixture gives a reduction of the system to 1092 kcal/kg.
- alloy reactions will largely be absent. It is, therefore, important that the metals are present in as close molecular contact as possible.
- the precondition will be obtained for converting the alloy reaction in the detonation zone and as after reaction.
- test method has been illustrated in the accompanying drawing in which reference No. 1 is an electric bursting cap, 2 is a restriction in the form of a wooden block, 3 is a test body of the explosive mixture which is to be tested, 4 is a steel sheet and 5 is a wooden support.
- test inserts (3) of a diameter of 22 mm and a length of approx. 20 mm were used. Initiation was effected with the electric bursting cap (1) of the VA type.
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