(U) Equation of State and Compaction Modeling for CeO₂

Technical Report · Mon Oct 20 04:00:00 EDT 2014

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1160104· OSTI ID:1160104

Fredenburg, David A. ^[1]; Chisolm, Eric D. ^[1]

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1. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

Recent efforts have focused on developing a solid-liquid and three-phase equation of state (EOS) for CeO₂, while parallel experimental efforts have focused on obtaining high-fidelity Hugoniot measurements on CeO₂ in the porous state. The current work examines the robustness of two CeO₂ SESAME equations of state, a solid-liquid EOS, 96170, and a three-phase EOS, 96171, by validating the EOS against a suite of high-pressure shock compression experiments on initially porous CeO₂. At lower pressures compaction is considered by incorporating a two-term exponential form of the P-compaction model, using three separate definitions for α(P). Simulations are executed spanning the partially compacted and fully compacted EOS regimes over the pressure range 0.5 - 109 GPa. Comparison of calculated Hugoniot results with those obtained experimentally indicate good agreement for all definitions of α(P) with both the solid-liquid and three-phase EOS in the low-pressure compaction regime. At higher pressures the three-phase EOS does a better job at predicting the measured Hugoniot response, though at the highest pressures EOS 96171 predicts a less compliant response than is observed experimentally. Measured material velocity profiles of the shock-wave after it has transmitted through the powder are also compared with those simulated using with solid-liquid and three-phase EOS. Profiles lend insight into limits of the current experimental design, as well as the threshold conditions for the shock-induced phase transition in CeO₂.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC52-06NA25396
• OSTI ID: 1160104
• Report Number(s): LA-UR-14-28164
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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