Explosive ‘form-cladding’ — A critical study

An investigation on the explosive cladding of 316L stainless steel-din-P355GH steel

“…A full set of tests that measure the mechanical properties of cladded metals by explosive, is likely to consist of one shear, one tensile and two bend tests, although in most cases the tensile shear test will provide all of the required information. Another routine test that is called ram test, measures the bend strength in tension and is often used for aluminum clads [4][5][6][7][8][9]. Because of these, tensile shear test was used in this study.…”

“…Although, mechanical and metallurgical properties and modeling of those explosively welded metals combinations have been investigated by several researchers [1,2,[4][5][6][7], there are no reports in literature about metallurgical and mechanical properties which consist of Charpy impact test of 316L stainless steel to steel cladding. Hence, the mechanical and metallurgical properties of cladded metal are investigated in detail.…”