Hypervelocity impact tests of 2.5 grains per foot flexible confined detonating chord (FCDC) shielded by a 1 mm thick 2024-T3 aluminum alloy bumper standing off 51 mm from the FCDC were performed. Testing showed that a 6 mm diameter 2017-T4 aluminum alloy ball impacting the bumper at 6.97 km/s and 45 degrees impact angle initiated the FCDC. However, impact by the same diameter and speed ball at 0 degrees angle of impact did not initiate the FCDC. Furthermore, impact at 45 degrees and the same speed by a slightly smaller diameter ball (5.8 mm diameter) also did not initiate the FCDC.
Hypervelocity Impact of Explosive Transfer Lines
2012
7 pages
Report
No indication
English
Fuels , Rocket Propellants , Manned Spacecraft , Detonations, Explosion Effects, & Ballistics , Detonation , Hypervelocity impact , Impact tests , Explosives , Confinement , Space shuttles , Cordage , Flexibility , Electric conductors , Projectiles , Aluminum alloys , Space debris , Micrometeoroids , Hexanitrostilbene
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