Characterizing Detonating Lx-17 Charges Crossing a Transverse Air Gap With Experiments and Modeling
Year: 2009
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Experiments were performed using detonating LX‐17 (92.5% TATB, 7.5% Kel‐F by weight) charges with various width transverse air gaps with manganin peizoresistive in‐situ gauges present. The experiments, performed with 25 mm diameter by 25 mm long LX‐17 pellets with the transverse air gap in between, showed that transverse gaps up to about 3 mm could be present without causing the detonation wave to fail to continue as a detonation. The Tarantula/JWL++ code was utilized to model the results and compare with the in‐situ gauge records with some agreement to the experimental data with additional work needed for a better match to the data. This work will present the experimental details as well as comparison to the model results.
Source: AIP conference proceedings
DOI: 10.1063/1.3295151
Institution: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Language: English
Subfield: Mechanics of Materials
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2008454942