Accelerated thermolysis of a trinitrotoluene—nitrotriazolone composite explosive with the 1 : 1 weight ratio

Abstract

The mathematical model of the accelerated thermal decomposition of a composite explo-sive, the rate of which is nonadditive with respect to the decomposition rates of the compo-nents, is considered using a solid composite explosive of nitrotriazolone with trinitrotoluene with the weight ratio 1: 1 as an example. The formation of an unstable 1: 1 complex at the stage of preliminary heating up of the composition is assumed to be a reason for this decom-position. The subsequent fast thermal decomposition of the complex imparts a necessary acceleration to the decomposition of the composite explosive as a whole, which occurs with a high rate to the end of experiment.