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VICTOR TECHNOLOGY
1537 Fourth St., Suite 218
San Rafael, CA 94901
Tel/Fax (415)458-1735
email:
victec@aol.com or
victec@earthlink.net

VICTOR TECHNOLOGY's major business areas are:

insensitive munitions (IM)
rocket exhaust plume technology
rocket propulsion
warhead performance
system safety
technology transfer
technical writing and editing

Victor Technology's business objective is to provide expert consulting support in specialized technical areas related to modern tactical weapons development and to transferable DOD laboratory technologies. We have a world-wide reputation and clientele. We are a small business technology consulting firm whose principal, Andrew Victor,* is an advanced-degree physicist with 40 years of technical and management experience in our wide range of technical and scientific areas.

*(Resumé at http://www.lmsc.lockheed.com/aiaa/sf/career/resumes/victor_a.html)

Victor Technology's consulting services are appropriate to all phases of

research and development

exploratory and advanced development

product conceptualization

preliminary design

proposal preparation

engineering development.

We have had contracts with a number of major defense contractors and DOD elements to perform the following Insensitive Munitions Threat Hazard Assessments.

Theater High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) Missile System

Patriot Advanced Capability (PAC-3)

Advanced Rocket System (ARS)

Advanced Bomb Family (ABF)

Advanced Intercept Weapon System (AIWS)

We have developed unique analytical spreadsheet tools that support Insensitive Munitions sensitivity/hazards assessment and testing in the following areas:

fast cookoff

slow cookoff

fragment impact

sympathetic detonation

bullet impact

shaped charge jet impact

Victor Technology's unique Insensitive Munitions spreadsheet analysis methods include the following prediction capabilities:

Shock initiation (SDT)

Hugoniot impedance-matching equations that yield the familiar P/Up graphs, but speed the process of pressure-matching calculations.

Shock initiation of detonation in cased/lined propellants and explosives for flat and round-faced projectiles both larger and smaller than the critical diameter, including shaped charge jets.

Prediction of sympathetic detonation of nearest neighbor acceptors, diagonal acceptors, or distant acceptors.

Estimation methods for modified shock sensitivity of damaged or pre-shocked charges.

Estimation of critical diameter on basis of composition.

Bullet impact

Calculation of projectile penetration of case and charge.

Calculation of shear-layer ignition due to penetrating projectile.

Cookoff

Fast cookoff time-to-ignition including layered structures, such as munitions in containers or launchers.

Fast cookoff of retardant-coated munitions.

Slow cookoff or intermediate cookoff (any heating rate).

Closed-form solutions of time-to-ignition for bare munitions at any heating rate.

Estimation of reaction violence in slow cookoff.

Threat Hazard Assessment

Threat Hazard Assessments at qualitative, statistical, and engineering levels.

Supporting Technology

Calculation of heats of combustion, explosion, and detonation.

Calculation of detonation pressure and detonation velocity.

Warhead behavior: calculation of fragment velocity, size and spatial distributions, blast pressure, impulse, and damage.

The methods are available at no cost from the publications listed below or at moderate cost by purchasing our spreadsheet (EXCEL) software. Alternatively, the methods can be introduced to your technical staff through either a training seminar or a consulting support contract that includes direct technical support on your proposal or design efforts as well as the software.

In Rocket Exhaust Plume Technology, while we do not perform Standard Plume Flowfield (SPF) or Standard InfraRed Radiation (SIRRIM) code calculations at our facility, we have unique background and capabilities to specialize in analysis and data interpretation, especially in the areas of:

plume primary smoke visibility

plume secondary smoke formation and visibility

plume radar attenuation and noise

plume radar cross section

Our Impedance-Matching EXCEL Spreadsheet can be sent to you as a file attached to email if you would like to sample it at no cost.
If your interest is in plumes, you can receive our Primary Smoke Visible Range Spreadsheet in the same way.

A FEW PUBLICATIONS
(Additional references are cited in the publications listed below. A complete list of our 140 references is available on request.)

1. Victor, A.C., "Prediction/Analysis of Munition Reactions for Insensitive Munitions Threat Hazard Assessment," 1994 ADPA Insensitive Munitions Technology Symposium, Williamsburg, Virginia.
2. Victor, A.C., "Simple Analytical Relationships for Munitions Hazard Assessment," 25th DOD Explosives Safety Seminar, Anaheim, California, Vol. IV, pp.19-61, 18-20 August 1992.
3. Victor, A.C., "Insensitive Munitions Threat Hazard Assessment," 1994 ADPA Insensitive Munitions Technology Symposium, Williamsburg, Virginia.
4. Victor, A.C., "Useful Data and Methods Related to Insensitive Munitions Threat Hazard Assessments," 1996 ADPA Insensitive Munitions Technology Symposium, San Diego, California.
5. Victor, A.C., "Exploring Cookoff Mysteries" 1994 JANNAF Propulsion Systems Hazards Subcommittee Meeting, 1-5 August 1994, San Diego, California and Cookoff and XDT Mechanisms, NIMIC-S-172-96, NATO, Brussels, Belgium, 15 April 1996.
6. Victor, A.C., "Simple Calculation Methods for Munitions Cookoff Times and Temperatures,"Propellants, Explosives, Pyrotechnics, Vol. 20, pp. 252-259, 1995.
7. Victor, A.C., "Insensitive Munitions Technology for Tactical Rocket Motors," Chapter 9 of the bookTactical Missile Propulsion, AIAA Astronautics and Aeronautics Series, 1996.
8. Victor, A.C., "A Simple Method for Calculating Sympathetic Detonation of Cylindrical Cased Explosive Charges," Propellants, Explosives, Pyrotechnics, Vol. 21, pp.90-89, 1996.
9. VICTOR TECHNOLOGY Guide to Spreadsheet Calculations for Insensitive Munitions Calculations and Supplemental Text, for sale with Spreadsheet Codes. 1993-1996.©
10. VICTOR TECHNOLOGY Insensitive Munitions Seminar, 3-day seminar including 650-page manual and video examples, presented since 1990.
11. Victor, A.C., "Warhead Performance Calculations," 1996 DDESB Explosives Safety Seminar, Las Vegas, Nevada, 20-22 August 1996.
12. Victor, A.C., and Breil. S.H. "A Simple Method for Predicting Rocket Exhaust Smoke Visibility," Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, Vol. 14, pp. 526-533, 1977.
13. Victor, A.C., "Effects of Multiple Scattering on Rocket Exhaust Smoke Visibility," Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, Vol. 26, pp. 274-278, 1989.
14. Victor, A.C., "Calculations of Rocket Plume Afterburning Coupled to Reacting Base Recirculation Regions," Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, Vol. 14, pp. 534-538, 1977.
15. Victor, A.C., "Solid Rocket Plumes," Chapter 8 of the book Tactical Missile Propulsion, AIAA Astronautics and Aeronautics Series, 1996.
16. Victor, A.C. (editor and writer), JANNAF Handbook ROCKET EXHAUST PLUME TECHNOLOGY, Ch. 3. Radiation, 1980; Ch. 4. Plume Electromagnetic Interactions, 1977. CPIA Publ. 263.

PARTIAL CLIENT LIST

Aerojet, Armtec, ASAHI Chemical Industries, Battelle, BEI Defense Systems, British Aerospace, CTA, Hercules (Alliant Techsystems), Lockheed-Martin, LORAL, NATO, Propulsion Science & Technology, QUOIN, RAFAEL, SECA, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army, U.S. Navy.

References are available upon request. (Return to top of Homepage.)

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