Flatness study on the metallic flyer driven by explosive loading assembly

The split Hopkinson pressure bar and light gas gun as the two common means of dynamic loading are widely used in dynamic mechanical characteristics of many materials, while it can not meet the experimental study requirements of the concrete and reinforced concrete because of the small loading samples dimensions. To solve this problem, a simple large-dimension explosive loading assembly, which directly drive the flyer devised cone shape to achieve a large-dimension loading, was presented. Numerical simulation was first used to complete the design optimization of experiment conception. The dynamic process which an explosion drove the flyer was simulated based on ALE and Lagrange coupling methods. Then target range experiments were performed and the flyer flatness was measured by using self-made concentric pins, pulse networks and two oscilloscopes. The improvement was proposed prepared for the finally dynamic experiments of the large-dimension concrete and reinforced concrete samples.