BIX Talks

BIX Talks


The Big Ideas Exchange (BIX) is an NPS initiative that brings forward new and potentially game-changing thinking developed by NPS faculty and students to address grand challenges in American national security. These fresh approaches can become the lifeblood of future innovations in military and naval organization, doctrine, and strategy. They reflect and augment larger changes emerging in the world from recent technological advances.

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A burning aluminum cube releases much more energy than a detonating TNT cube. What if we could force aluminum to burn very rapidly? Next generation weapons may pack a bigger bang in a smaller package by clever use of metal combustion.

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Our research focuses on energetic materials and high strain-rate deformation of solids. We pursue both experimental and computational work in our group, ranging from high-velocity impact testing to atomistic scale simulations.

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