Aluminum Micro-Balloons as Improved Fuel for Warhead Explosives

Abstract

Baseline unreacted Hugoniots for Al/water mixtures have been calculated using the kinetic energy averaging equation for the mixtures particle velocity and the known Hugoniots of each constituent. A very practical way of changing aluminum/water reaction rate and ignition threshold under shock loading is to add thick aluminum coated micro-spheres to the mixture. A process to make thick aluminum coatings on glass microspheres was developed. In addition, the design of a one-dimensional explosively driven flyer plate for shock wave experiments is provided.

Open PDF

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 29, 2018
Accession Number
AD1045996

Entities

People

  • Jerry W. Forbes

Organizations

  • Energetics Technology Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aluminized Explosives
  • Aluminum
  • Aluminum Coatings
  • Blast Waves
  • Compression
  • Department Of Defense
  • Energy
  • Equations
  • Explosives
  • High Pressure
  • Information Operations
  • Materials
  • Particles
  • Shock
  • Shock Waves
  • Subatomic Particles
  • Waves

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Aerosol Science/Aerosol Physics
  • Combustion Dynamics and Shock Wave Physics.
  • Combustion science or combustion engineering.