Six-mm, plane-wave shock driver

Conference · Sun Jul 10 00:00:00 EDT 1994 · AIP Conference Proceedings (American Institute of Physics); (United States)

OSTI ID:7013880

Frank, A M; Chau, H H ^[1]

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1. Lawrence Livermore, National Laboratory, P.O. Box 808, Livermore, California 94551 (United States)

A 6-mm-diameter, plane-wave shock generation system has been developed and characterized as a laboratory bench driver for small scale experiments. The driver is based on an exploding-foil-driven slapper used either directly or to initiate an HE pellet. The slapper is driven by a low-inductance fireset with burst currents on the order of 30 kA and burst times of about 250 ns, with time-to-burst jitter under 10 ns. Both the slapper impact and the detonation breakout of the pellet have been measured to be flat to within 10 ns over a 6-mm diameter. Fabry-Perot velocimetry of impacts with LiF crystals were used to characterize shock pressures and durations. Attenuator plates and flyers driven by the HE were also measured, which provided a variety of available pulse shapes and data for modeling efforts. [copyright]American Institute of Physics

• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-48
• OSTI ID: 7013880
• Report Number(s): CONF-921145-; CODEN: APCPCS
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings (American Institute of Physics); (United States), Vol. 309:1; Conference: Production and neutralization of negative ions and beams, Upton, NY (United States), 9-13 Nov 1992; ISSN 0094-243X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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42 ENGINEERING
IMPACT SHOCK
TEST FACILITIES
DESIGN
GUNS
LITHIUM FLUORIDES
SHOCK WAVES
TANTALUM
TIME DEPENDENCE
VERY HIGH PRESSURE
ALKALI METAL COMPOUNDS
ELEMENTS
FLUORIDES
FLUORINE COMPOUNDS
HALIDES
HALOGEN COMPOUNDS
LITHIUM COMPOUNDS
LITHIUM HALIDES
METALS
TRANSITION ELEMENTS
420500* - Engineering- Materials Testing