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The demand for munitions that are less likely to detonate accidentally has led to an increased use of Insensitive High Explosives (IHE), which contain substances like 2,4-dinitroanisole (DNAN) and 5-nitro-1,2,4-triazol-3-one ...
Trinitrotoluene (TNT) and picric acid (PIC) suffer from suboptimal thermal and impact sensitivities, which severely hinder their real-world use. We here demonstrate how co-crystallization with acridine (ACR) can improve ...
Amamra, Abdenour; Aouf, Nabil(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2014-12-01)
This paper presents a new approach to accurately track a moving vehicle with a multiview setup of red-green-blue depth (RGBD) cameras. We first propose a correction method to eliminate a shift, which occurs in depth sensors ...
Richardson, Mark; Aouf, Nabil; Boulekchour, Mohammed(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2014-07-09)
The most important applications of many computer vision systems are based on robust features extraction, matching and tracking. Due to their extraction techniques, image features locations accuracy is heavily dependent on ...
Experimental investigation into the feasibility of optically sensitising an insensitive explosive, FOX-7 (1,1-Diamino-2,2-dinitroethene) by the doping of gold nanoparticles (GNPs) has been conducted. The commercially ...
In England and Wales, Management of Sexual or Violent Offenders (MOSOVO) teams are often tasked with managing offenders that are subject to Sexual Harm Prevention Orders SHPOs. These orders are put in place to protect the ...
Lattice structures have shown potential for efficient protection against dynamic loading events, especially during high-strain rate scenarios such as a blast. Additive manufacturing enables the design of complex geometries ...
Countering improvised explosive devices (C-IED) is a significant theme of the twenty-first century, particularly in regions with limited governance and a fragile rule of law. Many strands of activity are involved, with ...
As a direct result of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2002, Soviet monuments across Eastern Europe – particularly those commemorating the Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army in the Second World War – are being ...
The chapter examines the duality of terrorism, by focusing on the constancy of its foundations, and by also analysing the continually changing surface of terrorism. The former refers to the causes and fundamentals of ...
Hydrostatic and hydrodynamic pressure loading has been applied to unicellular organisms for a number of years due to interest from food technology and extremophile communities. There is also an emerging interest in the ...
Appleby-Thomas, Gareth J.; Khan, Irfan Ullah; Painter, Jonathan; Zioupos, Peter; Lordachescu, Alexandra; Hes, Roelof A. G.(None - paper only available to conference delegates, 2023-08-30)
Ballistic testing necessarily employs simulant target materials for ethical and fiscal reasons. Current tissue analogues utilised for ballistic testing / research are, however, typically relatively simplistic – such as ...
Assessing the timing of skeletal trauma significantly impacts the reconstruction of events surrounding death and deposition in forensic cases. However, there are no absolute time frames in which the characteristics of wet ...
High pressure, high temperature events need to be quantified experimentally. Where fragmentation occurs i.e. against Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), there is a requirement for both a reliable and repeatable measurement ...
Carbamide Peroxide, an adduct of Urea and Hydrogen Peroxide (UHP) industrially used as a solid source of hydrogen peroxide, exhibits the behaviour of a tertiary explosive but a detailed performance characterisation is still ...
Soil provides multiple essential functions, such as provision of food and raw
materials, a platform for urban development and human wellbeing and as a
filtering and transforming medium. Many unregulated contaminants, ...
The aviation industry is currently facing increasing environmental and energy
challenges regarding its fuel use. Research is therefore currently under way to
develop new sustainable aviation fuels. Understanding the ...
The use of less-sensitive energetic formulations for military training activities
has driven the replacement of traditional explosive fills by a new generation
known as Insensitive High Explosives (IHE). Due to their ...
The essence of this PhD thesis is the analytical, aerodynamic modelling, as opposed to using grid-based methods such as CFD, of insect-like flapping wings in the hover for micro air vehicle applications. A key feature of ...
A new energetic co-crystal of trinitrotoluene (TNT) and pyrene (PYRN) with a 1:1 molar ratio was prepared by a slow solvent evaporation technique. Co-crystal physicochemical properties have also been examined using optical ...