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Initial results obtained from a 3D computational model of the shaped charge jet particulation process
In a previous paper, the authors discussed a 3D computational model for the particulation of a stretching shaped charge jet, based on the experimentally observed double-helix surface perturbations on softly recovered jet particles. The 3D problem was derived from the unperturbed 2D problem, which was first used to generate a stretching jet. A portion of this 2D jet was selected for study in the cylindrical 3D mode, and the double-helix perturbations were placed on the cylinder surface. This initial computation was greatly simplified, to make it feasible to run on a CM 200 massively parallel processor. The initial output of this computation, which is being published here for the first time, leads to a significant simplification of the analysis of the particulation process, by avoiding the search for the elusive ``most favored wavelength`` which is characteristic of 2D axi-symmetric analyses. Previously unnoticed characteristics of flash radiographs from Viper jets, appear to support the computational results obtained, despite a counter-intuitive prediction of the location of necking loci, relative to the perturbing helices. The approximations used in this initial computation are discussed critically. Planned improvements are defined. A vision of future fundamental computations, which become possible with more powerful ASCI machines, is projected
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The origins of liner material in a shaped charge jet particle
An improved high resolution LaGrangean tracer particle technique (using 198 identified tracer particles arranged as 99 particle pairs) has been used with an Eulerian Code (MESA 2D) to determine the locations in the jet to which liner material flows from various tagged locations in the liner, during the collapse, jet formation and jet stretching process. Time dependent strain and strain rate data has been computed, using the identified particle pairs of LaGrangean tracer particles as linear strain gauges. Sharp radial gradients of strain and strain rate have been found in the jet, with the liner material flowing nearest the jet axis being subjected to the highest strains and strain rates. Liner material from many extended initial locations along the liner can be traced by this method to jet locations corresponding to individual jet particles. The new quantitative data derived is illustrated with selected examples whose interpretation is discussed
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Microtextural characterization of copper shaped charge jet fragments
The microstructures of two soft-caught copper shaped charge jet particles were investigated. In particular, the spatial distributions of crystallographic texture within the particles were characterized using point specific measurements of crystallographic orientation. Significant variations in preferred orientation were observed. These results are discussed in fight of previous computer simulations of the jetting process which showed significant radial gradients in both strain and strain rate
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A new 3D computational model for shaped charge jet breakup
This paper reviews prior 1D and 2D axisymmetric, analytical and computational studies, as well as empirical studies of the shaped charge jet particulation problem and discusses their associated insights and problems. It proposes a new 3D computational model of the particulation process, based upon a simplified version of the observed counter-rotating, double helical surface perturbations, found on softly recovered shaped charge jet particles, from both copper and tantalum jets. This 3D approach contrasts with the random, axisymmetric surface perturbations which have previously been used, to try to infer the observed length distribution of jet particles, on the basis of the most unstable wavelength concept, which leads to the expectation of a continuous distribution of particle lengths. The 3D model, by its very nature, leads to a non-random, periodic distribution of potential initial necking loci, on alternate sides of the stretching jet. This in turn infers a potentially periodic, overlapping, multi-modal distribution of associated jet particle lengths. Since it is unlikely that all potential initial necking sites will be activated simultaneously, the 3D model also suggests that longer jet particles containing partial, but unseparated necks, should be observed fairly often. The computational analysis is in its very early stages and the problems involved in inserting the two helical grooves and in defining the initial conditions and boundary conditions for the computation will be discussed. Available initial results from the 3D computation will be discussed and interpreted
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The origins of liner material in a shaped charge jet particle
An improved high resolution LaGrangean tracer particle technique (using 198 identified tracer particles arranged as 99 particle pairs) has been used with an Eulerian Code (MESA 2D) to determine the locations in the jet to which liner material flows from various tagged locations in the liner, during the collapse, jet formation and jet stretching process. Time dependent strain and strain rate data has been computed, using the identified particle pairs of LaGrangean tracer particles as linear strain gauges. Sharp radial gradients of strain and strain rate have been found in the jet, with the liner material flowing nearest the jet axis being subjected to the highest strains and strain rates. Liner material from many extended initial locations along the liner can be traced by this method to jet locations corresponding to individual jet particles. The new quantitative data derived is illustrated with selected examples whose interpretation is discussed