International Workshop on Pyrotechnic Combustion Mechanisms

Last Update: 6^th April 2008

The WPC has been founded in 2004 to provide a forum for scientists and engineers working in the field of pyrotechnics to exchange ideas on pyrotechnic combustion reactions. There are annual workshops held in either Europe or USA most adjacent to the annual pyrotechnics seminar of the International Pyrotechnics Society.

Upcoming 6^th Workshop on Pyrotechnic Combustion Mechanisms

This workshop will take place on the 12^th July 2008 in Fort Collins Colorado, USA.

The workshop will start on Saturday July 12 at 9:00 and end in the afternoon around 5 pm.

The tentative program will include presentations given by:

• Beat Berger, Armasuisse, Sensitivity of Nanoenergetics
• Karl O Christe UCLA on Recent Progress in High-Oxygen Carriers of Interest as Green Replacements for AP and Hydrazine
• Alex Gash, LLNL, Sensitivity of Nanoenergetics
• Tom M. Klapoetke LMU on New Insensitive Energetic Materials
• Bertrand Roduit AKTS on Prediction of FCO SCO Behaviour of Energetic Materials
• Shanti Subramanian VESTA Ceramics, Sensitivity of Silicon based Energtics Materials

Registration procedure

Please register for the 6^th International Workshop on Pyrotechnic Combustion Mechanisms by E-Mail to Ernst-Christian Koch at MSIAC/NATO ,

You will be included in our mailing list.

The fee is 150 USD and will include a Memory Stick with the presentations and both continental breakfast, lunch buffet and beverages. We will make handouts available to you in digital format at the end of the Workshop.

Location

Fort Collins Marriot

Fort Collins, Colorado

USA

Disclaimer: The information provided may be subject to change. Please check regularly for updates. Please notice that this is a tentative planning!

Handout / Proceedings

All presentations will be made available as PDF on a CD-Rom. Presenters are free to submit any addition relevant information on it.

Seminar Co-Chairs

Ernst-Christian Koch

MSIAC (NATO)

Belgium

Rutger Webb

TNO Defence, Security and Safety

The Netherlands

Seminar Advisory Board

Beat Berger, Switzerland

Nigel Davies, United Kingdom

Alex Tappan, U.S.A.

Volker Weiser, Germany

US Focal Point

Sandia National Laboratories, Attn. Alex Tappan

PO Box 5800, MS 1454

Albuquerque, New Mexico 87185 - 1454

USA

astappa@sandia.gov

Phone: +1 - (0)505- 844 – 5768

Fax +1 - (0)505- 844 – 5924

We sincerely hope that you can attend the Workshops on Pyrotechnic Combustion Mechanism. Please forward this information to your colleagues!

Past workshops

Past workshops have been organised since 2004. Documentation is available. Typically it is planned that all presenters publish a full papers in Propellants, Explosives, Pyrotechnics or Journal of Pyrotechnic:

• The 5^th International Workshop on Pyrotechnic Combustion Mechanisms was held in Beaune Burgundy, France, on Saturday October 6^th 2007 in conjunction with EUROPYRO 2007 and 38^th International Pyrotechnics Seminar. Click here to see a group-photo of the 5^th WPC held Oct 6^th 2007

• The 4^th International Workshop on Pyrotechnic Combustion Mechanisms was held in Karlsruhe, Germany (June 25^th 2007) in conjunction with the ICT Seminar. Special Topic “Thermodynamic Models”

• The 3^rd International Workshop on Pyrotechnic Combustion Mechanisms was held in Fort Collins, Colorado, (July 15^th 2006) in conjunction with 33^rd International Pyrotechnics Seminar.

• The 2^nd International Workshop on Pyrotechnic Combustion Mechanisms was held in Pfinztal Berghausen, Germany (June 27^th 2005) in conjunction with the ICT Seminar.

• The 1^st International Workshop on Pyrotechnic Combustion Mechanisms was held in Fort Collins, Colorado, USA (on July 10^th 2004) in conjunction with 31^st International Pyrotechnics Seminar.