- Energetic materials and molecules including:
- environmental friendly products
- nano-scale raw ingredients
- manufacturing and control processes
- New explosives devices and systems including:
- Initiation and ignition technologies and systems EFI; laser, SCB, MEMS…
- Miniaturisation and nanotechnologies
- Ordnance, industry and space applications
- Insensitive explosives and munitions
- Applications to solid propulsion: rocket, gas generators…
- Industrial explosives and firing systems:
- blasting, excavation, drilling, mining
- new technologies and developments
- Prevention and detection of explosives misuses (HMEs, IEDs)
- Methodologies for design, reliability and lifetime demonstrations, IMness justifications:
- Modelling and simulation
- Testing methodologies and procedures
- Studies on shock waves and detonic phenomena:
- Shockwave flow in explosives
- Transition to detonation and advanced studies on reaction zone
- Laser induced flows and pulsed high powers
- Microstructural effects, behaviour laws in materials, damages
- Modelling and simulation
- Fireworks compositions:
- R&D
- Processing
- Safety
- Materials
- Hazard, security and risk management:
- Hazard assessment
- Accidental events analysis
- Explosive safety in industry and for environment
- Friendly environment design and recycling:
- Green design, green pyrotechnic
- Disposal and recycling technologies
- Regulations:
- European directives
- Implementation to commercial explosives and pyrotechnics