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Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI) has been awarded a contract from the U.S. Army to develop high energy density resin systems that are suitable for additive manufacturing of explosive and propellant formulations.
One approach is to tailor energetic prepolymers and plasticizers to enable rapid curing. This would lower manufacturing costs, increase manufacturing throughput as well as increase the range and lethality of the system. Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI) and their university partner successfully executed a Phase I program that developed scalable technologies to enable additive manufacturing of energetic resin systems. PSI demonstrated energetic resin systems with high energy density components that can be rapidly cured via thermal and/or UV processes. In Phase II, PSI will scale up the energetic resin system components to the pilot production scale and qualify the materials for insertion into explosive and propellant formulations through various thermochemical, sensitivity, and compatibility testing. PSI will perform iterative development in collaboration with the Army technical leads and demonstrate commercial viability of production at scale via techno-economic analysis. PSI will work with DoD primes and private sector companies to advance the TRL and transition the technology into commercial production. The Phase II design and transition plan will guide Phase III efforts, focusing on qualification of the material in explosive/propellant applications selected by the US Army.
For more information contact:
Dr. Dorin Preda
Vice President, Materials Technologies
dpreda@psicorp.com
Physical Sciences Inc.
Office: (978) 689-0003
Acknowledgement of Sponsorship: This work is supported under a contract with the U.S. Army. This support does not constitute an express or implied endorsement on the part of the Government.