Yield strength of Cu and an engineered material of Cu with 1{\%} Pb

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Abstract

To study the effects of engineered elastic-plastic yield on the mass-ejection from shocked materials we fielded explosively driven Cu and CuPb experiments. The Cu and CuPb experiments fielded fully annealed disks in contact with PBX 9501; the CuPb was extruded with 1{\%} Pb that aggregates at the Cu grain boundaries. The elastic-plastic yield strength is explored as a difference of ejecta production of CuPb versus Cu, where the ejecta production of solid materials ties directly to the surface perturbation geometries of wavelengths (fixed at 65 $\mu $m) and amplitudes (which were varied). We observed that the Cu performs as expected, with ejecta turning on at the previously observed yield threshold, but the CuPb ejects mass in much larger quantities, at much lower wavenumber ($k = $ 2$\pi $/$\lambda )$ amplitude ($h)$ products (\textit{kh}), implying a reduced elastic-plastic yield stress of the engineered material, CuPb.

Authors

  • William Buttler

    Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • George Gray, III

    MST-8, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA, Los Alamos National Lab, Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Saryu Fensin

    Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Mike Grover

    NSTec, LLC Special Technologies Laboratory, Santa Barbara, CA, National Securities Technologies, Special Technologies Laboratory

  • Gerald Stevens

    National Security Technologies, LLC, NSTec, LLC Special Technologies Laboratory, Santa Barbara, CA, National Securities Technologies, Special Technologies Laboratory

  • Joseph Stone

    Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • William Turley

    NSTec, LLC Special Technologies Laboratory, Santa Barbara, CA, National Securities Technologies, Special Technologies Laboratory