Demolition Mechanism and Behavior of Shaped Charge with Reactive Liner

The application of reactive materials on shaped charge liners has received much attention. Herein, the demolition mechanism and behavior of reactive materials based shaped charge liner are investigated by experiment, numerical simulation, and theoretical analysis. Three reactive shaped charge liners, composed of a mixture of Al/PTFE (26.5/73.5 wt-%) powders, are fabricated by pressing and sintering. The damage effects of the multi-layered target against reactive materials based shaped charge are investigated. The results show that the reactive liners create excellent collateral damage due to the release of chemical energy contained in reactive materials. An Eulerian computational model is developed to investigate penetration behavior of the reactive jet formed by shaped charge liner. In addition, a theoretical model based on cavity expansion is derived to predict the initiated location of reactive materials. Comprehensive analysis indicates that the TNT equivalence factor for these powder mixtures used in this work is 3.41–7.77 and that the self-delay time is about 0.8 ms. This work will provide guidance and reference for the design of reactive shaped charge liner.