Dynamic Compaction Modeling Comparison for Porous Silica Powder

A computational analysis of the dynamic compaction of porous silica is presented and compared with experimental measurements. The experiments were conducted at Cambridge University's one-dimensional flyer plate facility. The experiments shock loaded samples of silica dust of various initial porous densities up to a pressure of 2.25 GPa. The computational simulations utilized porous material models, P-lambda and P-alpha, in conjunction with a linear Us-up Hugoniot. Two hydrocodes were used to simulate the compaction event: CTH and KO. CTH is a three-dimensional Eulerian hydrocode developed at Sandia National Laboratory and KO is a one-dimensional Lagrangian hydrocode developed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. A comparison of the advantages and disadvantages, along with a discussion of the salient features, of the two models are presented.