Macroscopic crack formation and extension in pristine and artificially aged PBX 9501
Conference
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OSTI ID:984525
- Los Alamos National Laboratory
A technique has been developed to quantitatively describe macroscopic cracks, both their location and extent, in heterogeneous high explosive and mock materials. By combining such a technique with the deformation field measurement using digital image correlation (DIC), we conduct observation and measurement of the initiation, extension, and coalescence of internal cracks in the compression of Brazilian disk made of pristine and artificially aged PBX 9501 hjgh explosives. Our results conclude quantitatively that aged PBX 9501 is not only weaker but also much more brittle than the pristine one, thus is more susceptible to macroscopic cracking.
- Research Organization:
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC52-06NA25396
- OSTI ID:
- 984525
- Report Number(s):
- LA-UR-10-00324; LA-UR-10-324; TRN: US201016%%1372
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: The 14th International Detonation Symposium ; April 11, 2010 ; Coeur d'Alene, Idaho
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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