Time-resolved measurements of the shock-compression response of Mo+2Si elemental powder mixtures

Autor: Naresh N. Thadhani, Kevin S. Vandersall
Rok vydání: 2003
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Zdroj: Journal of Applied Physics. 94:1575-1583
ISSN: 1089-7550
0021-8979
Popis: The shock-compression response of Mo+2Si elemental powder mixtures was investigated using instrumented experiments in the velocity range of 500 m/s to 1 km/s. The experiments employed polyvinyl difluoride stress gauges placed at the front and rear surfaces of the powder mixtures to determine the crush strength, densification history, and shock-induced reaction initiation characteristics. Experiments performed on ∼58% dense Mo+2Si powder mixtures at input stresses less than 4 GPa showed characteristics of powder densification and dispersed propagated wave stress profiles with rise time >∼40 ns. At input stress between 4 and 6 GPa, the powder mixtures showed a shock-compression response following the Hugoniot of the solid-density mixture. In the stress regime of 6–7 GPa, shock-induced melting of silicon was observed, which appears to inhibit a shock-induced chemical reaction on the time scale of the time-resolved measurements. The results of the present work on Mo-Si, taken in conjunction with prior work on...
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