Energetic Materials Workshop
Workshop on Modeling and Simulation of Energetic Materials
A workshop on multiscale, multiphysics modeling and simulation of energetic materials was held on October 29-30, 2008, on the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The purpose of the workshop was to bring together researchers from industry, government, and academia interested in modeling, simulation, and experimental validation studies of heterogeneous energetic materials.
Solid energetic materials are used in a wide variety of applications, including rocket propellants, munitions, explosives for construction and demolition, automotive airbags, and pyrotechnic fasteners and actuators for space applications. An understanding of their potential initiation and explosion is vital for their safe storage, handling, and transportation, as well as their effectiveness for their intended purposes.
The workshop brought together researchers interested in predicting the behavior of heterogeneous energetic materials—specifically the properties and dynamics of their initiation and resulting energy release—through multiscale, multiphysics simulations using validated models on emerging petascale computing platforms.
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Pre-Workshop Seminar
For those arriving early for the workshop, Dan Hooks of Los Alamos National Laboratory gave a talk entitled “Characterization of Plasticity Mechanisms in Organic Single Crystals” at 2:00 P.M. on Tuesday, October 28, 2008 in room 2240 of the Digital Computer Laboratory.
