Abstract
Under plate impact experiments (uniaxial strain) single crystal explosives exhibit elastic-plastic mechanical behavior, however at quasi-static rates (uniaxial stress) they are brittle. We have conducted Split-Hopkinson Pressure Bar (SHPB) experiments to bridge the strain rate gap between the two extremes in an effort to tease out the effects of strain rate and pressure on the plasticity, and to probe the mechanisms of failure in single crystal RDX, PETN and PBX9501. Samples were compressed in different crystallographic orientations to promote different proposed deformation and fracture mechanisms, while utilizing in-situ synchrotron X-ray diffraction, phase contrast imaging, or high speed visible light imaging. Researchers have postulated that in sub-shock impacts, the mechanisms of stress dissipation an explosive possesses are very important to “hot spot” formation—which initiates the first chemical reactions within an energetic. What is “unpredictable” or “stochastic” for an observer at the macroscale, might in fact, be deterministic when a complete understanding of the microscale physics is understood. This paper will focus on the development of the mini- and micro-Kolsky bars utilized in order to maximize the strain rate within the samples, the initial results on the mechanical behavior and fracture mechanisms of these high explosives, and the challenges we have encountered and overcome.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
References
Bowden, F.P., Mulcahy, M.F.R., Vines, R.G., Yoffe, A.: The Detonation of Liquid Explosives by Gentle Impact. The Effect of Minute Gas Spaces. Proc. Roy. Soc. London. Ser. A. 188, 291 (1947)
Bowden, F.P., Stone, M.A., Tudor, G.K.: Hot Spots on Rubbing Surfaces and the Detonation of Explosives by Friction. Proc. Roy. Soc. London. Ser. A. 188, 329 (1947)
Bowden, F.P., Gurton, O.A.: Initiation of Solid Explosives by Impact and Friction: The Influence of Grit. Proc. Roy. Soc. London. Ser. A. 198, 337 (1949)
Bowden, F.P., Chaudhri, M.M.: Initiation of Explosion in AgN3 and b-PbN6 Single Crystals by a Collapsing Bubble. Nature. 220, 690 (1968)
Miller, G. R., Garroway, A. N.: A Review of the Crystal Structures of Common Explosives Part I: RDX, HMX, TNT, PETN, and Tetryl. Naval Research Lab Report, NRL/MR/6120-01-8585, (2001)
Hooks, D.E., Ramos, K.J., Bolme, C.A., Cawkwell, M.J.: Elasticity of crystalline molecular explosives. Propellants Explos. Pyrotech. 40, 333 (2015)
Dick, J.J.: Effect of crystal orientation on shock initiation sensitivity of pentaerythritol tetranitrate explosive. Appl. Phys. Lett. 44, 859 (1984)
Dick, J.J., Ritchie, J.P.: Molecular mechanics modeling of shear and the crystal orientation dependence of the elastic precursor shock strength in pentaerythritol tetranitrate. J. Appl. Phys. 75, 2728 (1994)
Hooks, D.E., Ramos, K.J., Martinez, A.R.: Elastic-plastic shock wave profiles in oriented single crystals of cyclotrimethylene trinitramine (RDX) at 2.25 GPa. J. Appl. Phys. 100, 024908 (2006)
Ramos, K. J., Cawkwell, M. J., Bolme, C. A., Hooks, D. E.: Effects of orientation, pressure/strain rate, and microstructure on the quasi-static deformation and shock response of single crystal explosives Carney, J. R., Maienschein, J. L. (eds.) 15th International Detonation Symposium (2017) Office of Naval Research, Arlington (in press)
Rae, P. J., Hooks, D. E., Liu, C.: The Stress Vs. Strain Response of Single b-HMX Crystals in Quasi-Static Compression, in 13th Symposium (International) on Detonation, Norfolk, VA, USA, (2006), p. 293
Dick, J.J., Hooks, D.E., Menikoff, R., Martinez, A.R.: Elastic-plastic wave profiles in cyclotetramethylene tetranitramine crystals. J. Appl. Phys. 96, 374 (2004)
Cawkwell, M.J., Ramos, K.J., Hooks, D.E., Sewell, T.D.: Homogeneous dislocation nucleation in cyclotrimethylene trinitramine under shock loading. J. Appl. Phys. 107, 063512 (2010)
Ramos, K.J., Hooks, D.E., Sewell, T.D., Cawkwell, M.J.: Anomalous hardening under shock compression in (021)-oriented cyclotrimethylene trinitramine single crystals. J. Appl. Phys. 108, 066105 (2010)
Whitley, V.H., Hooks, D.E., Ramos, K.J., Pierce, T.H., O’Hara, J.F., Azad, A.K., Taylor, A.J., Barber, J., Averitt, R.D.: Orientation dependent far-infrared terahertz absorptions in single crystal pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN) using terahertz time-domain spectroscopy. J. Phys. Chem. A. 115(4), 439–442 (2011)
Acknowledgements
Thanks to Nick Sinclair (DCS, WSU), Adam Schuman (DCS, WSU), and Nick Lorenzo (ARL) for their help with experiments at DCS. This publication is based upon work performed at the Dynamic Compression Sector, which is operated by Washington State University under the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)/National Nuclear Security Administration award no. DE-NA0002442. This research used resources of the Advanced Photon Source, a DOE Office of Science User Facility operated for the DOE Office of Science by Argonne National Laboratory under contract no. DE-AC02-06CH11357.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2020 Society for Experimental Mechanics, Inc.
About this paper
Cite this paper
Meredith, C., Casem, D., Liu, C., Morrow, B., Cady, C., Ramos, K. (2020). Overview of the First SHPB Experiments on Oriented Single Crystal Explosives. In: Lamberson, L. (eds) Dynamic Behavior of Materials, Volume 1. Conference Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Mechanics Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30021-0_25
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30021-0_25
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-30020-3
Online ISBN: 978-3-030-30021-0
eBook Packages: EngineeringEngineering (R0)