Libby Glascoe

Portrait of  Libby Glascoe

  • Title
    Deputy Group Leader, Thermal & Dynamic Experiments
  • Email
    glascoe2@llnl.gov
  • Organization
    Not Available

Research Interests

  • Aging and compatibility assessment of materials (energetic materials, polymers, and metals) including experimental methods, and predictive capabilities
  • System level modeling of multi-material systems to assess aging and compatibility based on sorption, outgassing, diffusion, and chemical reaction kinetics
  • Experimental methods and modeling of chemical reaction kinetics and mechanisms
  • Experimental methods to understand and quantify energetic material thermal explosion phenomena
  • High pressure burn rate measurements and burn phenomena of energetic material

Ph.D., Physical Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, 2006

B.A., Chemistry, Carleton College, Northfield, MN, 2000

  1. Y. Sun, S. J. Harley, and E.A. Glascoe, "Modeling and Uncertainty Quantification of Vapor Sorption and Diffusion in Heterogeneous Polymers", Chem. Phys. Chem., 2015, 16, 3072-3083.
  2. T. Willey, L. Lauderbach, F. Gagliardi, A. van Buuren, E.A. Glascoe, J. Tringe, J.R.I. Lee, H.K. Springer, and J. Ilavsky, "Mesoscale Evolution of Voids and Microstructural Changes in HMX-based Explosives during Heating Through the beta-delta Phase Transition", J. Appl. Phys. 2015, 118, 055901.
  3. J.W. Tringe, E.A. Glascoe, M. McClelland, D. Greenwood, R. Chambers, and H. Levie, "Pre-ignition confinement and deflagration violence in LX-10 and PBX-9501", J. Appl. Phys., 2014, 116, 054903.
  4. S.J. Harley, B.P. Mayer, E.A. Glascoe, R.S. Maxwell, G. White III, and R. Bernstein. "Multi-Method Characterization of Compression set in Fluorosilicon O-RingsPoly(dimethylsiloxane)", Special edition of Silicon, 2014.
  5. S.J. Harley, E.A. Glascoe, J.P. Lewicki, and R.S. Maxwell. "High Fidelity Modeling of Sorption and Diffusion of Moisture in a Highly Filled Poly(dimethylsiloxane)", Chem. Phys. Chem., 2014, 15, 1809-1820.
  6. J.W. Tringe, J.R. Kercher, H.K. Springer, E.A. Glascoe, H.W. Levie, P.C. Hsu, T.M. Willey, and J.D. Molitoris, "Numerical and experimental study of thermal explosions in LX-10 and PBX-9501: Influence of thermal damage on deflagration processes", J. Appl. Phys., 2013, 114, 043504.
  7. S.J. Harley, E.A. Glascoe, R. Maxwell. "Thermodynamic Study on Dynamic Water Vapor Sorption in Sylgard-184", J. Phys. Chem. B., 2012, 116,14183-14190.
  8. W. Small, E.A. Glascoe, G.E. Overturf III, "Measurement of moisture outgassing of the plastic-bonded TATB explosive LX-17", Thermochimica Acta, 2012, 545, 90-95.
  9. E.A. Glascoe, L.N. Dinh, W. Small IV, G.E. Overturf III, "Moisture desorption rates from TATB-formulations: experiments and kinetic models", J. Phys. Chem. A, 2012, 116, 5312-5316.
  10. V. Tang, C.D. Grant, J.F. McCarrick, J.M. Zaug, E.A. Glascoe, and H. Wang, "Spatiotemporal temperature and density characterization of high-power atmospheric flashover discharges over inert poly(methyl methacrylate) and energetic pentaerythritol tetranitrate dielectric surfaces", J. Applied Physics, 2012, 111, 5, article number 053303.
  11. E.A. Glascoe, P.C. Hsu, H.K. Springer, M. R. DeHaven, N. Tan, H.C. Turner, "The response of the HMX-based material PBXN-9 to thermal insults: thermal decomposition kinetics and morphological changes" Thermochimica Acta, 2011, 515, 58-66.
  12. E.A. Glascoe, J.M. Zaug, A.K. Burnham "Pressure Dependent Decomposition Kinetics of the Energetic Material HMX up to 3.6 GPa" J. Phys. Chem. A, 2009, 113, 13548-13555.
  13. E.A. Glascoe, J.M. Zaug, M.R. Armstrong, J.C. Crowhurst, C.D. Grant and L.E. Fried "Nanosecond Time-Resolved and Stead-State Infrared Studies of Photoinduced Decomposition of TATB at Ambient and Elevated Pressure" J. Phys. Chem. A, 2009, 113, 5881-5887.