REPUBLIC OF SERBIA

MINISTRY OF DEFENCE

www.mod.gov.rs

MINISTRY OF DEFENCE

Material Resources Sector

Defensive Technologies Department

Military Technical Institute

www.vti.mod.gov.rs

TRANSFER OF GRANULATED PBX PRODUCTION TO
THE INDUSTRIAL SCALE

SLAVICA TERZIĆ

Military Technical Institute, Belgrade, slavica@alogodesk.com

STANOJE BIOČANIN

Prva Iskra-Namenska proizvodnja, Barič

ALEKSANDAR ĐORĐEVIĆ

Prva Iskra-Namenska proizvodnja, Barič

ŽIVKA KRSTIĆ

Prva Iskra-Namenska proizvodnja, Barič

BILJANA KOSTADINOVIĆ

Prva Iskra-Namenska proizvodnja, Barič

ZORAN BORKOVIĆ

Military Technical Institute, Belgrade

Abstract: The transfer of granulated PBX (Plastic Bonded eXplosive) production technology to the industrial scale, in "Prva Iskra - Namenska proizvodnja" Company, is established. Two compositions of granulated PBX, based on octogen (HMX) and polymer phlegmatizers (Estane and Viton A) are prepared by aqueous/solvent slurry coating tehnique, on laboratory and industrial scale. The quality is analyzed and compared for laboratory and industrial prepared granulated PBX samples. The quality of polymer coating layer on HMX crystals is examined by microscopic analysis and presented in photographs. The comparative analysis of phlegmatizers contents in PBX samples is done, as well as granulometric analysis of PBX granules and  the sensitivity tests to friction and impact.

Keywords: high explosives, granulated PBX, coating technique, laboratory and industrial PBX processing.