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Aspirations for an Explosive Ordnance Engineering (EOE) Masters Program School of Engineering and Information Technology P. J. Hazell* and L. Wallace School of Engineering and Information Technology THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES UNSW

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Aspirations for an Explosive Ordnance Engineering (EOE) Masters Program

School of Engineering and Information Technology

School of Engineering and Information Technology THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES UNSW CANBERRA PO Box 7916, CANBERRA BC 2610, Australia *E: p.hazell@adfa.edu.au

  • P. J. Hazell* and L. Wallace
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Plan

  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The need for EOE education
  • 3. The aspiration
  • 4. Why do EOE at ADFA?
  • 1. Staff capability
  • 2. Explosives at Canberra (LW)

1.Equipment / research environment 2.Projects 3.Current courses

  • 3. Blast effects (PJH)
  • 5. Conclusions
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The need for an EOE Masters course in Australia

  • Clear need to maintain “relevance and currency to the ongoing

needs of the Australian Defence Organisation”*

  • There is currently few (=1) providers of post-grad education to

Masters level globally

  • Due to the cost of sending ADF personnel overseas for a one-year

placement this means only limited numbers of students are exposed to post-grad education (to Masters level) in EO-based education.

  • There is an opportunity to provide an Australian-centric version here!

* Air Commodore A G Clements

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The aspiration

  • To provide a full time and part time option for Explosive Ordnance

Engineering (8 courses each worth 6 units of credit)

  • This would comprise of:
  • 4 core courses (nominally 40 hours of lectures with 160 hours of

learning activity per course)

  • 2 elective courses (from current and new offerings)
  • A research project (worth 12 units of credit)
  • To develop a stream for explosives ordnance management education
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The current proposal

  • Taught component (IDM):

1. Explosive science 2. Formulation, manufacture and identification of explosives 3. Explosive damage mechanisms 4. Weaponisation of explosives 5. Propellants & pyrotechnics (possibly supported by Cranfield University) 6. Rocket motors (possibly supported by Cranfield University) 7. Other existing electives.

CORE ELECTIVES

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F/T over 1 year

Semester 1 Semester 2 NEW Explosive Science Explosive Damage Mechanisms Formulation, Manufacture and Identification

  • f Explosives

Weaponisation

  • f Explosives

Rocket Motors (elective) Propellant and Pyrotechnics (elective) RESEARCH Research project EXISTING (electives) Applications

  • f Data

Analysis Firepower & Protection Project Management Test and Evaluation Logistics Weapons Engineering Technical Regulation of Ordnance

= presentation day / engagement with industry

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Thesis project (12 UoC)

  • Practical or computational
  • Over one or two semesters (nominally 13 weeks duration)
  • Examples:
  • Using water mitigation for blast attenuation
  • Design of blast mitigating structures
  • Design of novel explosives
  • Explosive degradation studies
  • Chemical neutralisation of peroxides
  • Computational modelling of the formation of a shaped charge jet
  • Blast modelling studies using ANSYS Autodyn, LSDYNA or AIR3D
  • Fragment impact testing of materials and structures
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Industrial visits / range demonstrations

  • CTMC already engaged in several relevant industrial visits
  • Specific industrial visits – we would like to talk to you 
  • Potential range demonstrations and experiments at Havoc

Industries, Orchard Hills or Majura

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Why develop an EOE Masters Program at ADFA?

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Why develop an EOE Masters Program at ADFA?

  • UNSW has invested heavily in world-class facilities at

ADFA.

  • Eg., the new launcher to be installed at ADFA in early

2016 capable of launching projectiles to 4.5 km/s (far in excess of most explosively launched fragments).

Barrel Chamber in which target will sit Breech Projectile travel Visualisation ports for imaging using high- speed photography and flash X-Ray 2 m

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Stennett C, Cooper GA, Hazell PJ, Appleby-Thomas G. Initiation of secondary explosives measured using embedded electromagnetic gauges. In Elert M, Butler WT, Furnish MD, Anderson WW, Proud WG, editors, CP1195, Shock Compression of Condensed Matter – 2009, American Institute of Physics, Melville, New York, pp. 267-270.

500 1000 1500 2000 8.5 9.5 10.5 11.5 12.5 13.5 Time (µs) Particle velocity (mm/ µs) 1.0 2.0 3.0 4.0 5.0 0.5 1.0 1.5 2.0

Shot 090220: 10-mm Sintox FA flyer vs Rx1100, 5.1 GPa; Gauge: 60º, 2.8, 4.5, 6.3, 8.0, 9.7, 11.5, 13.2 mm.

Location of 200g of explosive Tank evacuated when closed

Potential gas gun experiments…

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Over to Lynne….

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Why develop an EOE Masters Program at ADFA?

Energetic Materials research at UNSW Canberra

GCMS (Gas Chromatograph Mass Spectrometer)

School of Physical, Environmental and Mathematical Sciences

Well-equipped research laboratories with state-of-the-art instrumentation for characterisation of materials, including:

FTIR (Fourier transform infra-red) spectrometer

  • Synthetic laboratories
  • FTIR spectrometers
  • 400 MHz NMR spectrometer
  • GCMS and HPLC for trace analysis
  • Fluorometers (detection methods)
  • Microwave reactor (for “green” synthesis)
  • Thermal analysers (DSC and TGA)
  • Potentiostats for electrochemical

synthesis or waste remediation

  • Scanning electron microscopy
  • Powder x-ray diffraction
  • Computational facility

400 MHz NMR spectrometer

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Why develop an EOE Masters Program at ADFA?

Past and current research projects

  • Remediation of wastewater from NTO manufacture
  • Honours project 2005 (OCDT M Cronin); DST Group support
  • Journal of Hazardous Materials 2007, Environmental Science & Technology 2009
  • Design and synthesis of new high-nitrogen EM
  • Honours projects 2007 (MIDN C Underwood), 2010 (C Selleck); with DST Group support
  • New Journal of Chemistry 2012, 2013; chapter in Green Energetic Materials (Wiley)
  • Safe Neutralisation of organic peroxides
  • PhD project 2014 (MAJ Mark Bali), with DST Group support & co-supervision
  • Journal of Forensic Science 2014, Dalton Transactions 2015
  • Development of fluorescent sensors for EM detection
  • PhD projects 2015 and 2016
  • Novel infra-red countermeasure flares
  • UG project (OCDT C McCartney, OFCT N Shepherd)
  • Current DST Group funding (2017)
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Why develop an EOE Masters Program at ADFA?

Past and current courses currently taught

Postgraduate:

  • Weapons Engineering
  • Firepower and Protection (CTMC)

Undergraduate:

  • ZPEM3107 Explosives
  • ZEIT4015 Impact Dynamics

Other: Professional Education (e.g., Ammunition and IED Effects – 11-13 December 2017)

Instrument laboratory, Building 22

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Back to Paul….

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Why develop an EOE Masters Program at ADFA?

  • High quality staff engaged in explosive-related research

and teaching:

  • Dr Pablo Escobedo – (ex Los Alamos ( shock / material characterisation)
  • Dr Lynne Wallace – (explosive synthesis / detection of explosives)
  • Dr Anthony Day – (molecular design / environmental / supramolecular)
  • Dr Andrew Brown -- from Arizona State (shock / impact)
  • Prof Chi King Lee – protective structures
  • Dr Terry Frankcombe – computational chemist working on reactive fragments
  • A/Prof Cliff Woodward – computational chemist
  • Dr Hongxu Wang – impact / shock
  • Prof Paul Hazell – impact / shock / armour
  • Engagement with world class researchers and

institutions

  • University of Wollongong
  • School of Mining Engineering (UNSW Australia)
  • Various staff at Cranfield University (Shrivenham Campus)
  • DST-G
  • AFP
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Two current examples of explosive engineering projects

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Prediction of Explosion Hazards from Earth Covered Magazine (ECM) – Range of Inhabited building distance Combined Blast and Fragment Loads

  • n structures – Numerical modeling

and experimental studies

Soil cover Ammunition magazine t=10 ms t=0 ms t=3 ms

Modelling of progressive collapse of building subject to column removal scenario

Example of Blast Research – Prof Chi King Lee

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Blast – recent 4th year undergrad project (Jack Walters)

Simulated Blast Wave in Synthetic Tissue Material using Foam Impactors

  • Finite Element-based study for

determining ideal polymeric and metallic foam impact conditions for replicating a blast wave using a gas gun (0.5 – 2 MPa range).

  • Novel visualisation of a shock wave

in an optically clear brain simulant (Sylgard 527 gel).

Synbone “skin” elastomer Bonesim: “cranial bone” Sylgard gel: “brain”

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Summary

  • There has been some exciting recent strategic facility developments at

UNSW Canberra

  • UNSW Canberra has the capability to host an EOE MSc program for

Defence through: 1. Delivery by our own staff; 2. Engagement with other institutions.

Questions ?