A polymer which is useful as a thermoplastic rubbery binder for oxidizer particles, such as HMX and RDX, for the preparation of low vulnerability gun propellants is provided by a segmented thermoplastic copolyester elastomer consisting essentially of a multiplicity of recurring intralinear long chain and short chain ester units connected head-to-tail through ester linkages, said long chain ester units being represented by a structure selected from the following group consisting of:
and
and said short chain ester units being represented by the following structure:
wherein:
G is a divalent radical remaining after removal of terminal hydroxyl groups from a poly(alkylene oxide) glycol having a carbon-to-oxygen ratio of about 2.0-4.3 and a molecular weight of about 600-6000;
R is a divalent radical remaining after removal of carboxyl groups from a dicarboxylic acid having a molecular weight less than about 300;
D is a divalent radical remaining after removal of hydroxyl groups from a linear diol having 2-8 carbon atoms and represented by the formula HO(CH2)2-8OH or the diol HO(CH2CH = CHCH2)OH;and
T is a trivalent radical remaining after the removal of carboxyl groups from a tricarboxylic acid having a molecular weight less than about 350 and containing two vicinal carboxyl groups capable of forming a cyclic imide;
with the proviso that the short chain ester units constitute about 30-65% by weight of the copolyester, at least about 50% of the R groups are 1,4-phenylene radicals, at least about 50% of the D groups are 1,6-hexamethylene radicals, and the sum of the percentages of the R groups which are not 1,4-phenylene radicals and of the D groups which are not 1,6-hexamethylene radicals is about 5-50%.
For use as a propellant binder it is preferred that the copolyester have a melt index at 120°C by ASTM-D1238 of about 2-25 grams/10 minutes.
一种聚合物可用作热塑性橡胶粘合剂,用于制备氧化剂微粒(如 HMX 和 RDX),以制备低毒性枪用推进剂,这种聚合物是一种分段式热塑性共聚酯弹性体,主要由多个重复出现的线内长链和短链酯单元通过酯连接头尾组成,所述长链酯单元的结构选自下组,包括
和
所述短链酯单元由以下结构表示:
其中
G 是二价基,从聚环氧烷二醇中去除末端羟基后剩余,其碳氧比约为 2.0-4.3,分子量约为 600-6000;
R 是二
羧酸去除羧基后剩余的二价基,分子量小于约 300;
D 是具有 2-8 个碳原子并由式 HO(
CH2)2-8OH 或二元醇 HO( CH = CH )OH 表示的线性二元醇除去羟基后剩余的二价基;以及
T 是
三羧酸中去除羧基后剩余的三价基,分子量小于约 350,含有两个可形成环状
亚胺的羧基;
但条件是短链酯单元占共聚聚酯重量的约 30-65%,至少约 50%的 R 基为 1,4-亚苯基基,至少约 50%的 D 基为 1,6-六亚甲基基,非 1,4-亚苯基基的 R 基和非 1,6-六亚甲基基的 D 基的百分比之和约为 5-50%。
用作推进剂粘合剂时,根据 ASTM-D1238 标准,共聚聚酯在 120°C 时的熔融指数最好为 2-25 克/10 分钟。