Abstract:Cyclotol is a melt-castable high explosive consisting of a mixture of RDX and TNT (75:25 wt. %). While used in conventional military applications, it can also be encountered in some types of IEDs (Improvised Explosive Devices). It is related to the more common Comp B (60:40 wt. %), and in the present work it was chosen as a case-study for noninvasive temperature determination in confined high explosives. An acoustics-based approach was used, based on (i) a collimated low-frequency acoustic beam, (ii) travel-ti… Show more
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