Experimental research on blast power of fiber reinforced anti-hard target warhead

Fiber reinforced anti-hard-target warhead is a new-type sample munition, which is only designed based on theoretical analysis and numerical simulation in laboratory. This warhead consists of carbon composite casings and high explosive, which can greatly reduce the damage to objects outside the damage range. In order to evaluate its blasting damage effect on concrete target, the three types of charges were researched by means of experiment, which are bare charge, charge with carbon composite material shell and charge with steel shell. Experimental results show that the peak overpressure of charge with carbon fiber composite shell is higher than that of charge with steel shell, but is lower than that of bare charge in the case of the same TNT equivalence. No fragments and fragment effect exist for distant target under the condition of charge with carbon fiber composite shell. However, the experimental result of the charge with steel shell is completely contrary. According to the blast effect in the concrete target, the charge with carbon composite material shell is optimal in matched impedance and detonation propagation.Also, the effective energy produced by the detonation of explosive with carbon composite material shell is the largest.

The deformation and failure mechanism of cylindrical shell and square plate with pre-formed holes under blast loading

The deformation and failure mechanism of cylindrical shells and square plate with pre-formed holes under blast loading were investigated numerically by employing the Ansys 17.0 and Ls-Dyna 971.To calibrate the numerical model,the experiments of square plates with pre-formed circle holes were modeled and the numerical results have a good agreement with the experiment data.The calibrated numerical model was used to study the deformation and failure mechanism of cylindrical shells with pre-formed circle holes subjected to blast loading.The structure response and stress field changing process has been divided into four specific stages and the deformation mechanism has been discussed systematically.The local and global deformation curves,degree of damage,change of stress status and failure modes of cylindrical shell and square plate with pre-formed circular holes are obtained,compared and analyzed,it can be concluded as:(1)The transition of tensile stress fields is due to the geometrical characteristic of pre-formed holes and cylindrical shell with arch configuration;(2)The existence of preformed holes not only lead to the increasing of stress concentration around the holes,but also release the stress concentration during whole response process;(3)There are three and two kinds of failure modes for square plate and cylindrical shell with pre-formed holes,respectively.and the standoff distance has a key influence on the forming location of the crack initiating point and the locus of crack propagation;(4)The square plate with pre-formed holes has a better performance than cylindrical shell on blast-resistant capability at a smaller standoff distance,while the influence of pre-formed holes on the reduction of blast-resistant capability of square plate is bigger than that of cylindrical shell.