Plastic flow in weak shock waves in uranium
Measurements of the particle velocity in weak shock waves in metals are available for a number of materials. These measurements use the laser interferometer or VISAR technique in conjunction with a plate impact experiment. These measurements are important for determining the elastic -- plastic behavior of materials at high strain rates. Strain rates up to 10{sup 7}/s are measurable with this technique, while more conventional mechanical testing machines, such as the Hopkinson bar, achieve rates only up to about 10{sup 4}/s. In this paper, the VISAR measurements of Grady on uranium are analyzed using the weak shock analysis of Wallace to extract the plastic and total strains, the deviatoric and total stresses, and the plastic strain rates. A brief error analysis of the results will be given. 7 refs.
- Research Organization:
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-36
- OSTI ID:
- 10137822
- Report Number(s):
- LA-UR-92-667; CONF-9205137-1; ON: DE92011270
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: International seminar on physics and gas dynamics of shock waves,Minsk (Russian Federation),27 May - 2 Jun 1992; Other Information: PBD: [1992]
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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