CHARACTERIZATION OF RAMAN SPECTRAL CHANGES IN ENERGETIC MATERIALS ANDPROPELLANTS DURING HEATING

Raman spectroscopy has been shown to be a useful tool for characterizi ng neat crystalline explosive samples and for identifying principal co mponents in many propellant and explosive formulations. This paper rep orts recent measurements of Raman spectra of explosives and propellant formulations during bulk heating and recent measurements of laser hea ting of the samples during the measurement of Raman spectra, The resul ts of these measurements are important to investigators using Raman sp ectroscopy to measure vibrational spectra at the surface of burning pr opellant samples, (C) 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.