Failure of Soda-Lime Glass at Extreme Conditions: New Experimental Frontiers

Abstract

To support a renewed effort in Pressure-Shear Plate Impact studies with normal-impact Hugoniot and isentropic compression experiments that determine the equation of state, wave profiles, and/or sound speed of soda-lime glass up to 75 GPa. The budget envisioned approximately three normal-impact experiments per year, using the 40 mm projectile gun that reaches pressures of -50 GPa for Ta impactors on soda-lime glass targets. We exceeded this goal significantly with 5 successful equation-of-state shots with partial release information on the 40 mm gun, one partly successful equation-of-state shot at higher pressure on the two-stage light gas gun, two successful thick-flyer experiments yielding temperature and shock velocity, and the first-of-its-kind "thin- flyer" shot on a silicate glass material, detecting both a high-precision shock temperature and a very clear rarefaction overtake.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 03, 2019
Accession Number
AD1090466

Entities

People

  • Paul D. Asimow

Organizations

  • California Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Compression
  • Department Of Defense
  • Equations
  • Experimental Data
  • Gas Guns
  • Guns
  • High Density
  • High Pressure
  • Information Operations
  • Light Gas Guns
  • Low Density
  • Materials
  • Measurement
  • Molecular Dynamics
  • Planetary Sciences
  • Precision
  • Projectiles
  • Rarefaction
  • Shock
  • Shock Waves
  • Silicates
  • Uncertainty

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Combustion Dynamics and Shock Wave Physics.
  • Research Science/Academic Research