CTH Implementation of a Two-Phase Material Model With Strength: Application to Porous Materials

Abstract

A material model accounting for strength developed earlier for two-phase materials is implemented in the CTH hydrocode. The strain response to load in the model is decoupled into shear and volumetric contributions in order to satisfy the model implementation requirements for CTH. Multi-phase description is realised via constitutive equations complementing the conservation laws for a material represented as a mixture of several phases. Such a formulation agrees well with the CTH code structure and is suitable for conventional user implementation. The implementation has been applied to a generic material representing sand at various porosities. The constitutive equations and equations of state have been fitted in order to describe literature data. Numerical illustrations in the report demonstrate agreement of the calculation results with the anomalous behaviour observed in the literature for a highly porous sand at shock compression and a good description of the experiments available in the literature on the explosion of a sand-buried charge.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 2012
Accession Number
ADA576275

Entities

People

  • A. D. Resnyansky

Organizations

  • Defence Science and Technology Group

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Applied Mathematics
  • Constitutive Equations
  • Differential Equations
  • Equations
  • Equations Of State
  • Explosions
  • Explosive Devices
  • Explosives
  • Heat Capacity
  • Heat Transfer
  • Improvised Explosive Devices
  • Mechanics
  • Momentum Transfer
  • Phase Transformations
  • Plastic Explosives
  • Porous Materials
  • Thermal Conductivity

Readers

  • Explosive Engineering.
  • Finite Element Method (FEM) for solving Partial Differential Equations (PDEs)
  • Theoretical Analysis.