Shaped Charge Liner Materials: Resources, Processes, Properties, Costs, and Applications

Abstract

This document contains brief summaries of the mineral availability, primary metal refinement processes, material costs in raw form and as finished shaped charge liners, relevant material properties, and generalized warhead applications of commonly used, candidate, and hypothetical shaped charge and explosively formed penetrator (EFP) liner materials. Shaped charge warheads, Explosively formed penetrators, Material processing, Liner fabrication costs, Availability, Applications.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1991
Accession Number
ADA278191

Entities

People

  • Steven M. Buc

Organizations

  • System Planning Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aluminum Oxides
  • Ceramic Materials
  • Chemistry
  • Combustion
  • Corrosion Resistance
  • Electrolytic Processes
  • Explosively Formed Penetrators
  • Governments
  • Heat Of Combustion
  • Hydroxides
  • Materials
  • Melting Point
  • North America
  • Shaped Charges
  • Specific Gravity
  • Tungsten
  • United States

Readers

  • Explosive Engineering.
  • Life Cycle Cost Analysis
  • Surface Engineering/Surface Coating Technology.