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Acta Armamentarii ›› 2019, Vol. 40 ›› Issue (7): 1418-1424.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1000-1093.2019.07.011

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Fracture Characteristics of Metal Cylinder Shells with Different Charges

YU Fuyou1, DONG Xinlong1, YU Xinlu2, FU Yingqian2   

  1. (1.Key Laboratory of Impact and Safety Engineeringof Ministry of Education, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, Zhejiang, China; 2.School of Mechatronical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China)
  • Received:2018-11-21 Revised:2018-11-21 Online:2019-09-03

Abstract: Expansion experiments of TA2 titanium alloy cylindrical shells with different thickness charges were carried out to study the effect of explosive load on fracture process of metal cylindrical shells, and the recovered fragments was microcosmically analyzed. The experimental results show that,when solid charge is used, the adiabatic shear bands distributed at 45° or 135° occur in the inner wall of TA2 cylindrical shell, and the cracks on the inner wall expand along the adiabatic shear bands to cause the fracture of shell; when a 1.9 mm-thick cavity charge is exploded, the cylindrical shell still exhibits a shear fracture mode, but the cracks are first generated in the center of the cross-section of cylindrical shell and extend to the inner and outer surfaces. As the thickness of cavity charge is decreased to 1.2 mm, the damage zone in the center of the cross-section of cylindrical shell is wider and the spallation occurs. The analysis shows that the fracture mode and mechanism of cylindrical shell are related to the explosion pressure and the ratio of load pulse width to wall thickness, which is a process involving the propagation of shock wave along the thickness and the competition of multiple physical failure mechanisms. Key

Key words: charge, metalcylinder, blastload, fracture

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