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Experimental investigation of the stress wave propagation inside a granular column impacted by a shock wave

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A simple experimental technique, based on pressure transducers, capable of measuring the stress wave that propagates along the solid phase of a granular column after being hit head-on by a plane shock wave is presented. The technique is based on installing couples of gauges at different cross-sections along the granular column in such a way that one transducer measures the overall pressure acting on it while the other measures only the pressure exerted on it by the gaseous phase of the granular column. By means of the presented experimental technique the time histories of the stresses normal to the shock tube walls and data on the stress wave attenuation as it propagates downstream towards the shock tube end wall were obtained.

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  1. Along the course of this paper, the term “pressure” indicates overpressure (gage pressure).

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This research was partially supported by the Israeli Ministry of Defence under contract No. 4440233491 635.

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  1. Protective Technologies R&D Center, Pearlstone Center for Aeronautical Engineering Studies, Faculty of Engineering Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheba, Israel

    E. Belov, M. Blachman, A. Britan, O. Sadot & G. Ben-Dor

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Belov, E., Blachman, M., Britan, A. et al. Experimental investigation of the stress wave propagation inside a granular column impacted by a shock wave. Shock Waves 25, 675–681 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00193-015-0559-2

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