This review presents a critical and comprehensive overview of current experimental
measurements of complete elastic constant tensors for molecular crystals. For a large …

Crystalline molecular explosives are key components of engineered explosive formulations.
In precision applications a high degree of consistency and predictability is desired under a …

Reactive force fields have enabled an atomic level description of a wide range of
phenomena, from chemistry at extreme conditions to the operation of electrochemical …

The response of the energetic molecular crystal cyclotrimethylene trinitramine (RDX) to the
propagation of planar shock waves normal to (100) has been studied using large-scale …

Investigation of deformation beginning with elasticity and continuing through the elastic–
plastic transition to incipient cracking has been conducted for (210),(021) and (001) oriented …

The propagation of shock waves normal to (111) in the energetic molecular crystal
cyclotrimethylene trinitramine (RDX) has been studied using large-scale molecular …

It is difficult to determine the elastic properties of thermal-sprayed ceramic and metallic
coatings owing to the microstructural complexity, sample size and geometry, heterogeneity …

The acoustic phonons of cyclotrimethylene trinitramine (RDX) have been studied using
Brillouin scattering. The analysis of the acoustic-phonon velocities allowed determination of …

Plate impact experiments were performed on oriented single crystals of the energetic
material cyclotrimethylene trinitramine (RDX). The experiments were performed to determine …

The dependence of the components of the elastic stiffness tensors (or elastic constants) of
the organic explosives PETN, RDX, CL‐20, DAAF, FOX‐7, and HMX on hydrostatic pressure …