LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY
High Explosives Application Facility
The High Explosives Applications Facility (HEAF), formerly also referred to as Building 191, is a non-nuclear facility for the research, development, and testing of energetic materials. HEAF was built to enhance the capability of DOE to develop high explosives with greater performance, less sensitivity, and engineering characteristics that can be tuned to each application. It was designed to house under one roof everything needed to develop and test explosives, their initiation systems, and their applications. HEAF has a variety of explosive laboratories and work areas; an explosives shipping, receiving, and storage; and its own machine and electronic shops. High explosives ranging in size from gram quantities to 10 kg can be detonated in specially designed firing tanks for containment. HEAF also has a 4-inch gun used in conjunction with a firing tank for high velocity impact experiments on energetic materials. Detonation and impact experiments are supported by state-of-the-art diagnostic equipment. HEAF has a variety of laboratories for synthesis, formulation, and small-scale sensitivity and safety testing of experimental energetic materials. It also conducts material characterization and performance testing. The work at HEAF supports LLNL's Energetic Materials center, a national resource for research and development of explosives, pyrotechnics, and propellants.
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