A series of shock initiation experiments on the explosive PBXC03 (87 % HMX, 7 % TATB, and 6 % Viton by weight) with different particle sizes and porosities under various shock loadings have been performed, and it is found that the particle size and the porosity of the explosives have much influence on the shock initiation characteristics. That is, the smaller the particle size, the more difficult the explosive to be ignited but the faster the detonation grows once the explosive is ignited. It is also found that the detonation grows the fastest in the explosive with moderate porosity. Moreover, a modified mesoscopic reaction rate model based on the experimental results and the pore collapse hot-spot ignition mechanism is developed, which allows for a separate reaction mechanism evaluation at different reaction stages for the shock initiation and detonation growth processes in the explosives. The calculated pressure-time histories and Pop-Plots for PBXC03 are founded to be all in good agreement with the experimental data. The modified mesoscopic reaction rate model shows its potentiality for quantitatively predicting the effects of the mesostructure of PBXs on the shock initiation and detonation growth processes with a high degree of confidence.Keywords: Shock initiation · Lagrangian experimental system · Modified mesoscopic reaction rate model · Particle size · Porosity · PBX explosive Embedded Manganin Gauge Measurements and Modeling of Shock Initiation in HMX-Based PBX Explosives Propellants Explos. Pyrotech. 2020, 45, 908-920 www.pep.wiley-vch.de
Considering the self-similar characteristic of irregular pore network of materials during the damage evolution process, a pore ubiquitiform model (PUM) is developed to characterize the multiscale pore or microcrack network of quasi-brittle materials, and then based on the PUM, the ubiquitiform damage model (UDM) is proposed to describe the damage evolution process of quasi-brittle materials under quasi-static uniaxial tensile loading. The values of porosity and pore specific surface area estimated from the PUM and the stress-deformation curves including the softening curve calculated from the UDM are in good agreement with previous experimental data, respectively. It can be found that, the PUM can be adopted to characterize the self-similar multiscale pore network and estimate the porosity and pore specific surface area, and the UDM can describe the damage evolution process of quasi-brittle materials under quasi-static uniaxial tensile loading. Meanwhile, the UDM can characterize the self-similar characteristic of pore network during the damage evolution process of quasi-brittle materials through the evolving ubiquitiform complexity.
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