Binders exert a strong influence on the safety and explosion properties of polymerbonded explosives (PBX) based on pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN). In this paper, the thermal behavior and decomposition kinetics of two PBX samples formulated from PETN were evaluated along with a PETN sample using various thermal techniques and analytical methods. | Thermal decomposition and shelf-life of PETN and PBX based on PETN using thermal methods