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J. Phys. IV France
Volume 110, September 2003
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Page(s) | 663 - 668 | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/jp4:20020769 |
J. Phys. IV France 110 (2003) 663
DOI: 10.1051/jp4:20020769
An experimental, metallurgical and modelling analysis of silver and copper explosively formed projectiles (EFPs)
J. MacMahon1, P. Church1, I. Cullis1, S. Findlay2, A. Hart1 and M. Wickenden11 QinetiQ Fort Halstead, Sevenoaks, Kent TN14 7BP, U.K.
2 QinetiQ Farnborough, Hampshire GU140LX, U.K.
Abstract
This paper describes an experimental, metallurgical and modelling study into the structure and properties of silver and copper
explosively fonned projectiles. The project started with the conditioning, processing and characterisation of the non-shocked
silver and copper materials. Here, the material constants were derived for the Goldthorpe path-dependant constitutive model [1].
For the purposes of this study the warhead designs produced some conservative EFP projectiles. These were designed using the
indigenous Eulerian hydrocode GRIM. Due to the ductile nature of both silver and copper, care was taken with respect to the
equation of state, in particular with the temperature supplied to the constitutive models. The EFP projectiles were then experimentally
recovered using soft-capturing techniques [2]. The comparison of the code predictions with the experimental radiography results
was very good, suggesting that there could not be large material phase changes or significant changes to the microstructure
of the material due to the explosively applied shock. Finally, the sectioning and metallurgical analysis of the recovered
projectiles showed that although there were some variations in both grain size, microstructure and material hardness throughoutlacross
the sectioned projectiles, these were not significant.
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