Initiation and detonation growth characteristics of polymer bonded explosives under ramp-wave loadings

Zhiling Bai, Zhuoping Duan*, Haiqing Liu, Jintao Cai, Zhuocheng Ou, Guiji Wang, Fenglei Huang

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Abstract

An experimental research approach is proposed to investigate the initiation and detonation growth characteristics of polymer bonded explosives (PBXs) under ramp-wave loadings, in which a magnetic compression device and a multichannel photonic Doppler velocimetry are taken as the ramp-wave loading and the measurement systems, respectively. The ramp loadings have a rise time of 530 ns, and the peak pressure P0 varies from 5.4 GPa to 12.4 GPa with the range of the peak ramp loading rate being from 11.6 GPa/μs to 31.3 GPa/μs. Five PBX specimens in different thicknesses were compressed simultaneously until detonation occurs in some of the specimens. All the particle-velocity histories on the reverse side of each sample were measured, which characterizes both the ignition and the detonation growth processes. It is found, under the ramp-wave loadings, that no significant chemical reaction inside the explosive occurs before a strong precursory shock-wave is formed, and the ignition and detonation growth processes are still dominated by the shock-wave induced hot-spots mechanism. Moreover, the experimental data are also found to be basically in good agreement with the numerical results simulated by using the DZK (named Duan-Zhang-Kim) reaction rate model with a pressure threshold, which implies that the ramp-wave loading experimental technique is also practicable for investigating the ramp-induced shock initiation and detonation growth characteristics of PBXs.

Original languageEnglish
Article number155901
JournalJournal of Applied Physics
Volume125
Issue number15
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 21 Apr 2019

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