High Energy Materials (HEM) Panel
- Poly nitrogen Compounds
- High Density High Performance High Explosives
- Primary Explosives
- Green Explosives & Propellants
- Insensitive High Energy Materials (HEMs)
- Viscosity Reducers
- Masking agent for isocyanates
- 1,2,4 Butanetriol by Microbial Synthesis Route
- Tetrazole based Polymeric Binders
- Fluoro nitro Polymers/Plasticizers
- Self-healing Polymers
- Non-Isocyanate Polyurethanes
- Studies on polymeric shock insulation material / lining for warhead casing
- Insulation Cloth
- Crystallisation: Particle Shape and Size Control
- Gel Propellants & its Atomisation
- 3D Printing of Propellants
- Pulse detonation propulsion
- Process development of nano-diamond synthesis
- Scale up of Process for Preparation of Epoxy terminated Butadiene-Isoprene- Butadiene Oligomer
- Green Electric solid propellants
- Multi-scale Modeling on Energetic Materials
- Development of Thermo-chemical code for flare composition
- Characterisation of Amorphous Boron powder(ABP)
Armament Sensors and Electronics (ASE) Panel
- Sensors for Armament Applications
- Electronic Systems Design for Armaments
- Power Sources for Armament Stores
- Fuzes for Armament Stores
- Pulsed Power and Rail guns
Materials for Armament Applications (MAA) Panel
- Materials for Armour Applications
- Materials for Ammunition
- Materials for Gun Barrels & Rocket Mortars
- Materials for Devices
- Advanced Manufacturing Process
Combustion, Detonics & Shock Waves (CDSW) Panel
- Micro-Detonics and Nano- Engineered Energetic Materials
- Experimental techniques and sensors for detonation and shock wave research
- Blast and damage Studies
- Pulse Detonation Engine Technology
- Hypervelocity Impact Behavior of Futuristic Armour Systems
- Safety, hazard and system level studies
Armament Design Mechanism & Ballistic (ADMB) Panel
Thrust Areas in Armament Design
- Noise suppressors and flash eliminators
- EM Propulsion – Hyper velocity propulsion and projectile design
- Systems for Artillery Guns
- Fin stabilized Armour Piercing Discarding Sabot (FSAPDS)
- Thrust Areas in Armament Mechanisms
Thrust Areas in Ballistics
- System Engineering for Accurate Performance Prediction
- Higher Order Models, Multi discipline Optimization
- Modeling & Simulation for Minimization & Optimization of Firings
- Computational Fluid Dynamics with Real Time Computations
- Network Based Ballistic computing
- Mathematical Modeling of projectile dynamics with in the barrel
- Intermediate ballistics of KE Projectiles
- Generation of High strain rate material data bank
- Explosive blast modeling
- Battle-scale Met forecast model
- Near/ Close field Heat exchange Multiphase transport model
- Design of pressure oscillations free propulsion system for free flight spinning rockets
- Study of effect of pressure oscillations in thrust chamber on flight stability of free flight spinning rocket.
- Application of ANN in Damage Assessment at Hypervelocity Impact
Safety and Test & Evaluation (STE) Panel
Explosive Safety
- Demilitarization Techniques, Disposal of Aged Propellants and Explosives
- Blast Structure Interaction
- Technologies and devices for blast mitigation
- Design of Protective/Containment Structures and Mobile Platforms against External Threat
- Safe Technologies for tracking of explosives/ammunitions
- Techniques for Safety and Hazard Investigation
Fire Safety
- Flame dynamics and suppression modeling
- Green materials and methodologies for fire suppression and Fire suppression chemicals
- Fire protective coatings and Clean fire extinguish ants
- Multifunctional waterproof, breathable & CBRN resistant next generation fire protective suits
- Modeling of fabrics and fire protective suits for different fire environments
- Fluoro-surfactants and polymers and High Performance fire retardant/resistant materials
- Molecular modeling for design of fire extinguishing chemicals
- Evaluation of atmospheric parameters like ODP, GWP, ALT
- Analysis of thermal decomposition products of fire extinguishing chemicals
- Self extinguishing materials
- Anti-freeze chemicals/agents
- Modeling of thermal behavior of materials
Environment Safety
- Environment friendly Hazard waste management and disposal technologies
- Eco-friendly Materials: – Molecular modeling & process development
- Atmospheric chemistry of hazardous species/chemical agents
- Environmental modeling: Fate and transport
- Development of Safety management tools & techniques
- Biodegradation of High Energy Materials
- Risk and Hazard Analysis of all Hazardous Processes/Facilities
- Safety regarding production, storage, transportation and handling of nano-materials and devices
- Regulations regarding handling of nano-materials and devices
- Characterization of nano-materials with respect to safety and Risk assessment for nano-materials
Test and Evaluation
- Data Mining of measured parameters of Artillery Weapon Systems (Soft Computing Method)
- System Engineering Approach to Range Layout
- Advanced Modeling and Simulation Techniques for Virtual Artillery Firing Range
- Development of Lab Model for Gun/Tank System Simulation
- Reliability Model for Artillery Weapon Components
- Acoustic Signal Processing for projectile trajectory characterization
- Risk Assessment model for ammunition handling
- Virtual target by Optics/Laser Method
- High speed imaging analysis of projectile
- Dev of MEMs devices as on-board telemetry package to a shell for various information related to its kinematics
- 3-D Strain analysis during impact on armour making use of DIC(digital image correlation)
- Modelling of launch dynamics of a shell/shot
- Dev of fibre optic sensor for attitude analysis of a projectile in interior ballistic phase
- Crack and Fracture dynamics prediction of a gun barrel
- Failure analysis of a projectile during its launch phase
- Modelling of shot impact phenomena on various armours
