Miniature Beryllium Split-Hopkinson Pressure Bars for Extending the Range of Achievable Strain-Rates

Zuanetti, Bryan; Ramos, Kyle James; Cady, Carl McElhinney; Meredith, Chris S.; Casem, Daniel T.; Golder, Adam; Bolme, Cynthia Anne

doi:10.3390/met12111834

Miniature Beryllium Split-Hopkinson Pressure Bars for Extending the Range of Achievable Strain-Rates

Journal Article · Fri Oct 28 00:00:00 EDT 2022 · Metals

DOI:https://doi.org/10.3390/met12111834· OSTI ID:1897448

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Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory, Edgewood, MD (United States)
Intuitive Surgical Instruments, Sunnyvale, CA (United States)

Conventional Split Hopkinson Pressure Bars (SHPB) or “Kolsky” bars are often used for determining the high-rate compressive yield and failure strength of materials. However, for experiments generating very high strain-rates (>10³/s) miniaturization of the setup is often required for minimizing the effects of elastic wave dispersion in order to enable the inference of decreasingly short loading events from the data. Miniature aluminum and steel bars are often sufficient for meeting these requirements. However, for high enough strain-rates, miniaturization of steel or aluminum Kolsky bars may require prohibitively small diameter bars and test specimens that could become inappropriate for inferring representative properties of materials with large grain size relative to the test specimen size. The use of a beryllium Kolsky bar setup is expected to enable high rates to be accessible with larger diameter bars/specimen combinations due to the inherent physical properties of beryllium, which are expected to minimize the effects of elastic wave dispersion. For this reason, a series of beryllium Kolsky bars have been developed, and, in this paper, the dispersion characteristics of these bars are measured and compare the data with those of similarly sized 7075-T6 aluminum and C350 maraging steel. The results, which agree well with the theory, show no appreciable frequency dependence of the elastic wavespeed in the data from the beryllium bars, demonstrating its advantage over aluminum and steel in application to Kolsky bars.

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Research Organization:: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), Office of Defense Programs (DP)

Grant/Contract Number:: 89233218CNA000001

OSTI ID:: 1897448

Report Number(s):: LA-UR-22-29480

Journal Information:: Metals, Journal Name: Metals Journal Issue: 11 Vol. 12; ISSN 2075-4701

Publisher:: MDPICopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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