EUROLAB laboratory provides testing and compliance services within the scope of STANAG 4178 standard. The purpose of this agreement is to standardize test methods for assessing the quality of nitrocellulose used in the production of energetic materials.
Testing procedures have been developed to facilitate cross-supply and to provide guidelines that countries can satisfy themselves that imported nitrocellulose is tested in acceptable ways.
Nitrocellulose remains an important energetic material found in a wide variety of propellants and other energetic formulations.
Acceptance testing as a polymeric material usually involves measuring the degree of polymerization and solution viscosity as an indicator of workability. However, many viscosity methods are used and the results are not easily comparable.
Updated STANAG 4178 “Assessment of Quality of Nitrocellulose Deliveries from One NATO Country to Another,” providing the opportunity to combine size exclusion chromatography (SEC) or gel permeation chromatography (GPC) to determine average molecular masses and molar mass distribution.
EUROLAB assists manufacturers with STANAG 4178 test compliance. Our test experts, with their professional working mission and principles, provide you, our manufacturers and suppliers, the best service and controlled testing process in our laboratories. Thanks to these services, businesses receive more effective, high-performance and quality testing services and provide safe, fast and uninterrupted service to their customers.
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