Topics

• Energetic materials and molecules including:
  •  environmental friendly products
  • nano-scale raw ingredients
  •  manufacturing and control processes
• New explosives devices and systems including:
  • Initiation and ignition technologies and systems EFI; laser, SCB, MEMS…
  • Miniaturisation and nanotechnologies
  • Ordnance, industry and space applications
• Insensitive explosives and munitions
• Applications to solid propulsion: rocket, gas generators…
• Industrial explosives and firing systems:
  •  blasting, excavation, drilling, mining
  • new technologies and developments
• Prevention and detection of explosives misuses (HMEs, IEDs)
• Methodologies for design, reliability and lifetime demonstrations, IMness justifications:
  • Modelling and simulation
  • Testing methodologies and procedures
• Studies on shock waves and detonic phenomena:
  • Shockwave flow in explosives
  • Transition to detonation and advanced studies on reaction zone
  • Laser induced flows and pulsed high powers
  • Microstructural effects, behaviour laws in materials, damages
  • Modelling and simulation
• Fireworks compositions:
  • R&D
  • Processing
  • Safety
  • Materials
• Hazard, security and risk management:
  • Hazard assessment
  • Accidental events analysis
  • Explosive safety in industry and for environment
• Friendly environment design and recycling:
  • Green design, green pyrotechnic
  • Disposal and recycling technologies
• Regulations:
  • European directives
  • Implementation to commercial explosives and pyrotechnics