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Inferring Strength of Tantalum from Hydrodynamic Instability Recovery Experiments

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Hydrodynamic instability experiments allow access to material properties at extreme conditions, where strain rates exceed 105 s−1 and pressures reach 100 GPa. Current hydrodynamic instability experimental methods require in-flight radiography to image the instability growth at high pressure and high strain rate, limiting the facilities where these experiments can be performed. An alternate approach, recovering the sample after loading, allows measurement of the instability growth with profilometry. Tantalum samples were manufactured with different 2D and 3D initial perturbation patterns and dynamically compressed by a blast wave generated by laser ablation. The samples were recovered from peak pressures between 30 and 120 GPa and strain rates on the order of 107 s−1, providing a record of the growth of the perturbations due to hydrodynamic instability. These records are useful validation points for hydrocode simulations using models of material strength at high strain rate. Recovered tantalum samples were analyzed, providing an estimate of the strength of the material at high pressure and strain rate.

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Acknowledgements

This work was performed under the auspices of the US Department of Energy by Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under Contract No. DE-AC52-07NA27344. This work was supported by the NNSA through the HEDLP program, Grant Numbers DE-NA0001805 and DE-NA0001832. Experimental time was awarded by the Jupiter Laser Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. We would like to thank the staff at the Jupiter Laser Facility for their help during our experimental campaign. The experiment was completed with the help of Professor Marc Meyers, Tané Remington, and Shiteng Zhao of the University of California, San Diego and Suzanne Ali of the University of California, Berkeley.

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    Z. Sternberger & G. Ravichandran

  2. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, USA

    B. Maddox, C. Wehrenberg, R. Kraus & B. Remington

  3. Nevada National Security Site, Livermore, CA, USA

    Y. Opachich

  4. General Atomics, San Diego, CA, USA

    G. Randall & M. Farrell

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Sternberger, Z., Maddox, B., Opachich, Y. et al. Inferring Strength of Tantalum from Hydrodynamic Instability Recovery Experiments. J. dynamic behavior mater. 4, 244–255 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40870-018-0153-7

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