Two general expressions and their six derived formulae for estimating the critical temperature（Tb） of thermal explosion for energetic materials（EMs） were derived from the Semenov＇s thermal explosion theory and eight non-isothermal kinetic equations via reasonable hypothesis. We can easily obtain the values of the initial temperature（T0i） at which DSC curve deviates from the baseline of the non-isothermal DSC curve of EMs, the onset temperature（Tei）, the exothermic decomposition reaction kinetic parameters and the values of Too and Te0 from the equation Toiorei=Tooore0＋α1β1＋α2β2＋...＋αL-2βi^L-2, i=1, 2, …, L and then calculate the values of Tb by means of the six derived formulae. The results obtained with the six derived calculating methods for six trinitromethyl explosives： bis（2,2,2- trinitroethyl-N-nitro） ethylene diamine（BTNEDA）, 2,2,2-trinitroethyl-4,4,4-trinitrobutyrate（TNETB）, bis（2,2,2- trinitroethyl） formal（BNTF）, bis（2,2,2-trinitroethyl-nitramine）（BTNNA）, 2,2,2-trinitroethyl-2,2,2-trinitroethyl-N- nitroamino acetate（TNTNNA） and tetrakis [2,2,2-trinitroethyl] orthoester（TTNOE） agree well with each other.
