Patent ID: 8173430

Claim:
A simulant material for simulating hazardous materials substantially devoid of non-inherently associated volatiles, comprising a quantity of at least one explosive material and at least one inert material; wherein the simulant material is a non-explosive material and is in the form of a homogenous, flexible and non-particulated material, the simulant material being manufactured by a process comprising: mixing at least one explosive material in neat form with an inert material to obtain a mixture devoid of non-inherently associated volatiles, in which the at least one explosive material is homogenously distributed throughout the inert material, the mixture being a flexible and non-particulated, paste-like simulant material, the inert material being a polymer; vacuum-extruding the paste-like material to remove air from the paste; and processing the paste-like simulant material devoid of air into a final form selected from the group consisting of a rod, a sheet and a roll.