Manganese as Fuel in Slow-Burning Pyrotechnic Time Delay Compositions

Pyrotechnic Smoke Compositions Containing Boron Carbide

Smokes are used on the battlefield for signaling, for marking targets, and for screening troop movements. Many high-performance compositions are toxic or hazardous, while non-toxic alternatives offer sub-par performance. The environmentally benign compositions described herein use boron carbide as a pyrotechnic fuel to produce thick clouds of white smoke. Experimentation and thermodynamic model...

Pyrotechnic Residues Analysis – Detection and Analysis of Characteristic Particles by Sem-eds

Many of the improvised explosive devices received at the Forensic Explosives Laboratory (FEL) contain pyrotechnic or home-made explosive mixtures as the explosive charge. Pyrotechnic residues contain a complex mixture of combustion products and unconsumed material. It has been reported that pyrotechnic residues comprise characteristic particles, similar to the formation of gunshot residue parti...

Mutagenicity of sangak bread with emphasis on gasoline as a burning fuel

Finite time stabilization of time-delay nonlinear systems with uncertainty and time-varying delay

In this paper, the problem of finite-time stability and finite-time stabilization for a specific class of dynamical systems with nonlinear functions in the presence time-varying delay and norm-bounded uncertainty terms is investigated. Nonlinear functions are considered to satisfy the Lipchitz conditions. At first, sufficient conditions to guarantee the finite-time stability for time-delay nonl...

Slow light with persistent hole burning

R. N. Shakhmuratov, A. Rebane, P. Mégret, and J. Odeurs Instituut voor Kernen Stralingsfysica, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200 D, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium Optique Nonlinéaire Théorique, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Campus Plaine CP 231, B-1050 Bruxelles, Belgium Kazan Physical Technical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, 10/7 Sibirsky trakt, Kazan 420029 Russia Physics ...