Safe Conditions for Conducting Tests Using Ballistic Facilities

Understanding the physical and thermomechanical response of materials subjected to intense dynamic loading is a significant challenge that has a practical implication for modern engineering. Shock compression followed by expansion precipitates both reversible and irreversible physical and mechanical processes in the material. These processes include strong compression in solids, high heating rates, phase transformations, electronic structure change, work hardening, spalling. Methods and devices for producing intense shock loads can be subdivided into several groups. Presently, in worldwide practice, gun type launchers have gained the widest acceptance in studying dynamic compressibility, strength characteristics, and spallatation phenomena in laboratory conditions. In this type of facility, the launched body moves in a tube under the force of a compressed gas. The facilities differ depending on the gas used and the method of its compression. Specific features of the facilities impose certain limitations on the registration and format of the tests. Examples of determining the boundary between the interior and exterior ballistics, the influence of the launched body supporting elements and the conditions of safe testing at high-speed entry in fuel are considered in this work.

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