An empirical method for predicting detonation pressure of CHNOFCl explosives

This paper describes a new method for prediction of the Chapman–Jouguet detonation pressures of CHNOFCl explosives using the heat of detonation, Qdet, the number of moles of gaseous products of detonation per gram of explosive, α, and the average molecular weight of gaseous products, M. The equation has the form: PCJ=15.88α(MQdet)1/2ρ02−11.17, where PCJ is the Chapman–Jouguet detonation pressure and ρ0 the loading density. Calculated PCJ by this procedure show good result with respect to measured detonation pressure for any pure or mixture of ideal and some of less ideal CHNOFCl explosives at ρ0>0.8 g/cm3.