A series of plate impact experiments on alumina was conducted using a light gas gun in order to further investigate Hugoniot elastic limit(HEL)and failure properties of alumina under shock compression.The velocity int...A series of plate impact experiments on alumina was conducted using a light gas gun in order to further investigate Hugoniot elastic limit(HEL)and failure properties of alumina under shock compression.The velocity interferometer system for any reflector(VISAR)was used to record the rear-free surface velocity histories of the alumina samples.According to the experimental results,the HELs of tested alumina samples with different thicknesses were measured,and the decay phenomenon of elastic wave in shocked alumina was studied.A phenomenological expression between HEL and thickness of sample was presented,and the causes of the decay phenomenon were discussed.The propagation of failure wave in shocked alumina was probed.The velocity and delayed time of failure wave propagation were obtained.The physical mechanism of the generation and propagation of failure was further discussed.展开更多
基金supported by the Science and Technology Development Foundation of China Academy of Engineering Physics (Grant No. 2014B0101009)the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11502258, 11272300)
文摘A series of plate impact experiments on alumina was conducted using a light gas gun in order to further investigate Hugoniot elastic limit(HEL)and failure properties of alumina under shock compression.The velocity interferometer system for any reflector(VISAR)was used to record the rear-free surface velocity histories of the alumina samples.According to the experimental results,the HELs of tested alumina samples with different thicknesses were measured,and the decay phenomenon of elastic wave in shocked alumina was studied.A phenomenological expression between HEL and thickness of sample was presented,and the causes of the decay phenomenon were discussed.The propagation of failure wave in shocked alumina was probed.The velocity and delayed time of failure wave propagation were obtained.The physical mechanism of the generation and propagation of failure was further discussed.
