Contact Sally Gaulter
- Tel: +44 (0) 1793 785388
- Email: s.e.gaulter@cranfield.ac.uk
Areas of expertise
- Advanced Casting Science and Technologies
- Composites
- Defence manufacturing
- Test and Evaluation
- Explosives and Munitions
Background
Sally graduated from University of Nottingham with BSc (hons) Chemistry in 1988.Work History
- PBX compositions using both novel and commercially available binder systems
- Novel energetic binder systems
- Developing highly filled castable PBX composition.
- Particle Characterisation techniques.
Cranfield University (2004 - present.)
- Development of Pressable compositions.
- Research and development of novel processing techniques.
- Project support for in service explosive compositions.
- Formulation development to control materials properties of explosive compositions.
Current activities
- Pressable compositions
- Novel energetic binder materials
- Processing explosive compounds
- High loaded explosive compositions
- Insensitive munitions
- Rheological properties
Clients
- AWE
- Chemring Energetics
- Chemring Nobels
Publications
Articles In Journals
- Fang X, Stennett C & Gaulter S (2023) Enhancement of laser ignitibility of insensitive energetic materials (FOX-7), Propellants, Explosives, Pyrotechnics, Available online 15 September 2023 Article No. e202300079.
- Claydon AJ, Patil AN, Gaulter S, Kister G & Gill PP (2022) Determination and optimisation of Resonant Acoustic Mixing (RAM) efficiency in Polymer Bonded eXplosive (PBX) processing, Chemical Engineering and Processing: Process Intensification, 173 (March) Article No. 108806.
- Wright CJ, Wilkinson PJ, Gaulter SE, Fossey D, Burn AO & Gill PP (2022) Is ResonantAcoustic Mixing® (RAM) a game changer for manufacturing solid composite rocket propellants?, Propellants, Explosives, Pyrotechnics, 47 (1) Article No. e202100146.
- Stennett C, Gaulter S & Akhavan J. (2020) An estimate of the TNT-equivalent net explosive quantity (NEQ) of the Beirut port explosion using publicly-available tools and data, Propellants, Explosives, Pyrotechnics, 45 (11) 1675-1679.
- Luppi F, Mai N, Kister G, Gill PP, Gaulter SE, Stennett C & Dossi E (2019) Chemical modification of β-cyclodextrins: balancing soft and rigid domains in complex structures, Chemistry - A European journal, 25 (68) 15646-15655.
- Dossi, E, Akhavan J, Gaulter SE, Williams RG & Doe WJ (2018) Cross-linking of hydroxyl-terminated polyols with triethyleneglycol diglycidyl ether: an alternative to toxic isocyanates, Propellants, Explosives, Pyrotechnics, 43 (3) 241-250.
Conference Papers
- Andrews MRG, Gaulter SE, Akhavan J & Bolton P FT-IT Monitoring of Cure Rate and Effect of Plasticizer Content on a Series of Cross-Linked PolyNIMMO-based Systems. In: 38th Int Conf of ICT, Karlsruhe, Germany.
- McAteer D, Weaver M, Blair LH, Flood N & Gaulter S Compatibility assessment of thermoplastic formulations. In: 19th Seminar on new trends in research of energetic materials, Pardubice, 20-22 April 2016.
