The key issues in developing a sustainable gun or rocket propellants are financial, environmental, legislative and safety. Use of commercially available off the shelf polymers, in particular, thermoplastic elastomers (TPE) ...

New safety requirements are pressuring military organizations to replace TNT with insensitive high explosives (IHEs) containing DNAN, NTO and RDX but little is known about the behaviour IHE components and formulations in ...

The manufacturing process for solventless extruded double base propellants involves a number of rolling and reworking stages. Throughout these processes a decrease in weight average molecular weight was observed, this was ...