Shock driven decomposition and reshock in PMMA
ORAL
Abstract
\justify Polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) is a transparent thermoplastic often used as a Hugoniot standard or as a window material in shock compression experiments. We present new equations of state (EOS) for solid PMMA based on the \texttt{Sesame} framework, and for its shock-driven decomposition products based on thermochemical modeling. We compare our results to a wide variety of existing data, finding good agreement in all cases. Previous proceedings (AIP Conference Proceedings \textbf{845}, 131 (2006)) described plate impact experiments in which PMMA was reshocked to pressures of up to $\sim$130 GPa, well above that at which it decomposes on its principal Hugoniot. These results were reanalyzed in a later proceeding (\emph{ibid}. \textbf{1426}, 771 (2012)), motivated largely by a higher than anticipated Gruneisen coefficient ($\Gamma$) inferred originally. We revisit this discussion based on hydrodynamic simulations performed with our new EOS.
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Authors
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Meghan K. Lentz
Los Alamos National Laboratory
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Joshua D. Coe
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Lab, LANL
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Kirill Velizhanin
LANL, Los Alamos National Laboratory