Abstract
Small scale explosively driven fragmentation experiments have been performed on Aluminum (Al)-Tungsten (W) granular composite rings processed using cold isostatic compression of Al and W powders with a particle size of 4-30 microns. Fragments collected from the experiments had a maximum size of the order of a few hundred micrometers. This is a dramatic reduction in the fragment size when compared to the 1-10 mm typical for a homogeneous material such as solid aluminum under similar loading conditions. Numerical simulations of the experiment were performed to elucidate the mechanisms of fragmentation that were responsible for this shift in fragmentation size scales. Simulations were performed with a significantly stronger explosive driver to examine how the mechanisms of fragmentation change when the detonation pressure increases.
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Olney, K.L., Chiu, PH., Nesterenko, V.F. et al. The Fragmentation of Al-W Granular Composites Under Explosive Loading. MRS Online Proceedings Library 1521, 807 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1557/opl.2013.114
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1557/opl.2013.114