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Seminar Topics

Subjects of interest for this seminar include pyrotechnics, propellants and explosives, as well as devices that utilize these materials, processes used to make them and the physical and chemical principles and processes involved in the design, characterization, reaction, testing, operation and aging of such materials.

 All aspects of pyrotechnics

 Improvised explosive devices (IEDs)

 Fuel/oxidizer formulations

 Initiators and initiation

 Insensitive energetic materials

 Pyrotechnic generated/dispersed biocides

 Sensitivity and safety

 Regulations and standards applicable to energetics; STANAGs, etc.

 Solid rocket propellants

 Synthesis of explosive, propellant, and pyrotechnic ingredient

 Environmental considerations

 Formulation of explosive, propellant, and pyrotechnic compositions

 Nano-particles in energetic materials

 Unusual applications of energetic materials

 Testing methods and devices

 Conventional/non-conventional explosives

 Manufacturing processes; twin-screw extruders, coacervation, co-precipitation, etc.

 Commercial fireworks (R&D, processing, safety, materials, etc.

 Computational methods applied to energetics

 Commercial explosives and pyrotechnics for blasting, excavation, drilling, and mining

 Detonation science