Recent Developments for Prediction of Power of Aromatic and Non-Aromatic Energetic Materials along with a Novel Computer Code for Prediction of Their Power

The explosive power or strength of an energetic material shows its capacity for doing useful work. This work reviews recent developments for prediction of power of energetic compounds. A new user-friendly computer code is also introduced to predict the relative power of a desired energetic compound as compared to 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene (TNT). It is based on the best available methods, which can be used for different types of energetic compounds including nitroaromatics, nitroaliphatics, nitramines, and nitrate esters. The computed relative powers are consistent with the measured data for some new materials containing complex molecular structures.