Libby Glascoe profile

Libby Glascoe

Deputy Group Leader, Thermal & Dynamic Experiments

PLS / Msd / Materials Science Division

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Biography

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

Education

  • Ph.D., Physical Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, 2006
  • B.A., Chemistry, Carleton College, Northfield, MN, 2000

Publications

2015 2 publications

  • 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.
  • 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.

2014 3 publications

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

2013 1 publication

  • 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.

2012 4 publications

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

2011 1 publication

  • 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.

2009 2 publications

  • 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.
  • 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.
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