A Study of the effect of aspect ratio on fragmentation of explosively driven cylinders

Tom De Vuyst, Rade Vignjevic, James C. Campbell, Andreas Klavzar, Marina Seidl

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Abstract

The work presented in this paper consists of a parametric study of explosively driven fracture and fragmentation of steel cylinders. The effect of cylinder height to wall thickness ratio on the failure mode and fragment shape is studied using a numerical model based on the meshless Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) method. The simulation results are supplemented with experiments with identical charge geometries and materials, to analyse the natural fragmentation behaviour of the different cylinders. Characteristic fragments were softly recovered in a water basin and fragment mass distributions are compared to the simulation results.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication14th Hypervelocity Impact Symposium, HVIS 2017
EditorsMark J. Burchell
PublisherElsevier
Pages194-201
Number of pages8
ISBN (Print)9781510850040
DOIs
Publication statusE-pub ahead of print - 17 Oct 2017
Event14th Hypervelocity Impact Symposium, HVIS 2017 - Canterbury, United Kingdom
Duration: 24 Apr 201728 Apr 2017

Publication series

NameProcedia Engineering
Volume204
ISSN (Electronic)1877-7058

Conference

Conference14th Hypervelocity Impact Symposium, HVIS 2017
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityCanterbury
Period24/04/1728/04/17

Keywords

  • dynamic fracture
  • explosively driven cylinders
  • fragmentation
  • smoothed particle hydrodynamics
  • soft recovery

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