Explosive Technology Group

The Explosive Technology Group (ETG) provides diverse technical expertise and an agile, integrated approach to solve complex challenges for all classes of energetic materials (EM) and explosive components. The Explosive Technology Group has a plethora of unique technical capabilities that enable an engineering science approach to component design and development, and probe the science underlying EM performance, safety, and reliability in normal and abnormal environments. Our customer and partner base includes the National Nuclear Security Administration,, other Department of Energy partners, and numerous Work-for-Other customers including Department of Defense , academia, and industry. Resources enable multiple key technologies: • Extensive expertise in research, development, and application of energetic materials • Conventional and advanced explosive component design, development, evaluation, and modeling • Unique combinations of physical/chemical characterization and testing of EM for advancing energetic material science and technologies • Model development for design engineers and understanding the physics of EM in static and dynamic conditions • Miniaturization of explosive components • Aging and failure modes analysis • Safety and reliability assessments • Development of advanced EM detection technologies • Quantitative analysis of EM performance in abnormal environments • Ballistic testing and analysis • Ability to integrate multiple technologies to address new areas of interest