Abstract
A tabletop system has been developed to launch aluminium laser-driven flyer plates at speeds of up to 4 km/s. The flyers were used to initiate nanoenergetic reactive materials including aluminium/iron oxide and aluminium/molybdenum oxide thermites produced by arrested reactive milling. The flyer flight and impact was characterized by photon Doppler velocimetry and the initiation process by time-resolved emission spectroscopy. Impact initiation thresholds were determined for 50 μm thick flyer plates producing 10 ns shocks. The intensities, delays and durations of the emission bursts, and the effects of nanostructure and microstructure on them were used to investigate fundamental mechanisms of impact initiation.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Article number | 182010 |
| Journal | Journal of Physics: Conference Series |
| Volume | 500 |
| Issue number | PART 18 |
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| State | Published - 2014 |
| Event | 18th Biennial Int. Conf. of the APS Topical Group on Shock Compression of Condensed Matter, APS-SCCM 2013 in Conjunction with the 24th Biennial Int. Conf. of the Int. Association for the Advancement of High Pressure Science and Technol., AIRAPT 2013 - Seattle, WA, United States Duration: Jul 7 2013 → Jul 12 2013 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Physics and Astronomy