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Flow Strength Measurements of Wrought and AM SS304L via Pressure Shear Plate Impact Experiments

Journal of Dynamic Behavior of Materials

Borg, John P.; Alexander, Charles S.; LaJeunesse, Jeffrey W.; Helminiak, Nathaniel S.; Specht, Paul E.

Pressure-shear plate impact experiments were performed to quantify flow strength of wrought, as-built additively manufactured (AM), and heat-treated and recrystallized AM 304 L stainless steel (SS304L) under combined loading. Impact velocities spanned between 0.03 and 0.24 mm/μs, resulting in corresponding pressures of 0.62–5.93 GPa. Flow strength measurements are comparable for the sample variants across the studied loading conditions; however, shear wave structures significantly differ between sample type. Microstructurally aware simulations indicate local strain differences attributed to anisotropic elastic constants of large grains (~1 mm) in the as-built and heat-treated AM may impede the ability to uniformly transmit a shear wave.

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Evaluation of XHVrB for capturing transition to detonation as measured by embedded gauges

AIP Conference Proceedings

Tuttle, Leah W.; LaJeunesse, Jeffrey W.; Schmitt, Robert G.; Harstad, Eric N.

The Extended History Variable Reactive Burn model (XHVRB), as proposed by Starkenburg, uses shock capturing rather than current pressure for calculating the pseudo-entropy that is used to model the reaction rate of detonating explosives. In addition to its extended capabilities for modeling explosive desensitization in multi-shock environments, XHVRB's shock capturing offers potential improvement for single shock modeling over the historically used workhorse model HVRB in CTH, an Eulerian shock physics code developed at Sandia National Labs. The detailed transition to detonation of PBX9501, as revealed by embedded gauge data, is compared to models with both HVRB and XHVRB. Improvements to the comparison of model to test data are shown with XHVRB, though not all of the details of the transition are captured by these single-rate models.

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