Behaviour of rippled shocks from ablatively-driven Richtmyer-Meshkov in metals accounting for strength

Journal Article · Thu May 26 00:00:00 EDT 2016 · Journal of Physics. Conference Series

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/717/1/012075· OSTI ID:1348971

Opie, S. ^[1]; Gautam, S. ^[2]; Fortin, E. ^[2]; Lynch, J. ^[2]; Peralta, P. ^[2]; Loomis, E. ^[3]

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1. Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ (United States). School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy; Arizona State University
2. Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ (United States). School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy
3. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

While numerous continuum material strength and phase transformation models have been proposed to capture their complex dependences on intensive properties and deformation history, few experimental methods are available to validate these models particularly in the large pressure and strain rate regime typical of strong shock and ramp dynamic loading. In the experiments and simulations we present, a rippled shock is created by laser-ablation of a periodic surface perturbation on a metal target. The strength of the shock can be tuned to access phase transitions in metals such as iron or simply to study high-pressure strength in isomorphic materials such as copper. Simulations, with models calibrated and validated to the experiments, show that the evolution of the amplitude of imprinted perturbations on the back surface by the rippled shock is strongly affected by strength and phase transformation kinetics. Increased strength has a smoothing effect on the perturbed shock front profile resulting in smaller perturbations on the free surface. Lastly, in iron, faster phase transformations kinetics had a similar effect as increased strength, leading to smoother pressure contours inside the samples and smaller amplitudes of free surface perturbations in our simulations.

• Research Organization: Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Fusion Energy Sciences (FES) (SC-24)
• Grant/Contract Number: SC0008683
• OSTI ID: 1348971
• Alternate ID(s): OSTI ID: 1348972; OSTI ID: 22711267
• Report Number(s): DOE-ASU--8683; DOE-ASU--8683-3
• Journal Information: Journal of Physics. Conference Series, Journal Name: Journal of Physics. Conference Series Vol. 717; ISSN 1742-6588
• Publisher: IOP Publishing
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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phase transformation
shock
strength