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J. Phys. IV France
Volume 110, September 2003
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| Page(s) | 797 - 802 | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/jp4:20020791 | |
J. Phys. IV France 110 (2003) 797
DOI: 10.1051/jp4:20020791
Novelties in physics of explosive welding and powder compaction
I. Plaksin1, J. Campos1, J. Ribeiro1, R. Mendes1, J. Direito1, D. Braga1 and R. Pruemmer21 Laboratory of Energetics and Detonics, Mechanical Engineering Department, Pinhal de Marrocos, Polo II, 3030 Coimbra, Portugal
2 institut fur Werkstoffkunde, Karlsruhe University, 76128 Karlsruhe, Germany
Abstract
Widely known technologies of explosive (X) welding and explosive (X) powder compaction are based on applications of porous
composite solid or liquid explosives. Recent results on dynamics of X-welding and X-powder compaction are presented and discussed
in this paper in the conceptual context of an orderly oscillating detonation wave (DW), a synergetic phenomenon observed in
detonation of all classes of composite energetic materials, that was discovered in LEDAP in last eight years. Regular instabilities
that are induced by oscillating DW, are transmitted through the interface of the impacted materials, causing the local instability
and fluctuations in both processes, formation of the interfacial waves (X-welding mechanism) and in an initial phase of powder
compaction. Application of high resolution optical probes (spatial resolution 250
m, temporal resolution 1 ns, 96 independent channels) allowed the simultaneous registration of the oscillating DW in the X-charge
and transmission of oscillations, through the flyer plate, up to the welding zone. Similar measurements have been made in
experiments with X-compaction of tungsten powder providing the continuos registration of shock wave velocity inside the compacted
powder, its geometrical shape, their instabilities and irregularities.
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