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Energetics

The Power to Keep Peace

Battelle has the world-class expertise and unique, versatile laboratory facilities to provide a complete platform for conducting all facets of energetic and hazardous research in a thorough, safe and efficient manner.
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Full Spectrum Service at a Single Site

Battelle is a comprehensive source for lifecycle research and development for energetic formulations, munition and weapon testing, sustainment and demilitarization. We help organizations design, synthesize, formulate, prototype and test at a single site to streamline the process and minimize contractor involvement.

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Specialized Facilities

 

Battelle has built a world-class network of research, testing, and development facilities.   

  • Gram Scale Primary and Sensitive Explosives Laboratory  
  • 3 all-weather explosive test chambers (up to 50 lbs TNT NEW)  
  • Small Caliber Test Range (up to 40 mm)  
  • Explosive Melt-Cast and Cast-Cure Loading  
  • Flexible Explosive Press Facilities  
  • Ordnance Load, Assemble, Test (LAT)/First Article Test (FAT) Facilities  

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How We Help

  • Customized and special needs energetic materials development
  • Performance characterization of energetic materials and warheads
  • IHC and Qualification testing of new energetic materials 
  • Formulation and characterization of new explosive materials, from gram-scale to arena tests 
  • Rapid prototyping of solutions to meet emerging needs
  • Chemical process development for energetic materials (including synthesis, coatings, and formulation)  
  • Turn material science into polymers for binders, plasticizers and coatings 
  • Advanced measurement tools, including photon Doppler velocimetry (PDV), high-speed video, thin-film pressure gauges, UV/VIS, IR and Raman spectroscopy, DSC/TGA and electron microscopy 

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Cross-disciplinary scientific and engineering collaboration is essential for innovation. Our experts, called “Solvers” at Battelle, combine multiple advanced materials expertise like these with other applied sciences and engineering disciplines to deliver comprehensive client solutions.

  • Ceramics

  • Digital Engineering

  • Encapsulation

  • High Temperature Materials

  • Materials Chemistry

  • Nanomaterials

Innovation requires multidisciplinary scientific and engineering collaboration. Our Solvers at Battelle combine multiple chemistry disciplines like these with other applied sciences and engineering expertise to deliver comprehensive client solutions.

  • Analytical Chemistry

  • Chemical Engineering

  • Chemical Formulation and Synthesis

  • Materials Chemistry

  • Physical Chemistry

Data science expertise is at the core of our multidisciplinary approach. Our experts, called “Solvers” at Battelle, combine data science disciplines like these with applied engineering and science to deliver comprehensive client solutions in government and industry.

  • Artificial Intelligence

  • Data Analytics

  • Digital Engineering

  • Modeling and Simulation

Real-world solutions require multidisciplinary scientific and engineering collaboration. Our experts, called “Solvers” at Battelle, combine multiple engineering disciplines like these with other applied sciences to deliver comprehensive client solutions.

  • Chemical Engineering

  • Digital Engineering

  • Explosives Engineering

  • Modeling and Simulation

  • Systems Engineering

Our Experts


  • Suhithi Peiris

    Principal Scientist, Energetics

    Suhithi Peiris, PhD has 24 years of experience in energetics. She started her career in US Navy labs working on materials at high pressure and high temperature, energetic materials, explosives, reactive materials, explosives formulations and material characterization such as x-ray diffraction, Raman, IR, SEM, TEM, MS, time-resolved spectroscopy, etc. She then worked at the Defense Threat Reduction Agency focusing on methods to counter chem/bio agents. Came to Battelle in March 2022 from Air Force Research Lab where she was an executive-level Senior Scientist (ST) familiar with warhead design, weapon effects, warhead testing, arena tests, collaborative swarming munitions, detonation, blast, hydrocodes for weapon effects simulations, lethality and lethality codes.

  • Forrest Svingala

    Project Manager
    Forrest has more than 11 years of experience designing, executing and managing experimental research programs involving shock and detonation physics, blast-resistant armor and explosive performance characterization. 

  • Russ Hrdy

    Program Manager
    Russ is a former Colonel in the U.S. Army with more than 28 years of service and nearly two decades of program management experience. At Battelle, he manages programs that support munition sustainment, capability enhancements and new product development. 

  • Duncan Langlois

    Mechanical Engineer
    Duncan has more than 18 years of experience in energetics materials RDT&E for the DoD, DHS and intelligence community. Much of this experience is focused on the synthesis, formulation and characterization of conventional, homemade and novel energetic materials and assessing their performance in munition systems. 

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