Study of expanding fracture behavior of a copper cylinder under hollow explosive loading.

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Abstract

We study the expanding fracture behavior of a copper cylinder under hollow explosive loading. Besides the tensile fracture along the circumferential direction, spall fracture along radial direction occurs, which is evidenced by the step-like behavior with three velocity jumps in the free surface velocity curves and microstructure study of the soft recovered fragments. After considering the spall fracture mechanism, a numerical simulation is carried our and the result shows good agreement with the experiment data.

*This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grants No. 11172279)

Authors

  • Cheng Fan

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  • Zhaoliang Guo

    • None
  • Mingtao Liu

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  • Tiegang Tang

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