Issue
DYMAT 2009
Volume 2, 2009
DYMAT 2009 - 9th International Conference on the Mechanical and Physical Behaviour of Materials under Dynamic Loading
Page(s) 1061 - 1067
Section Micro-Structural Effects
DOI https://doi.org/10.1051/dymat/2009148
Published online 15 September 2009
DYMAT 2009 (2009) 1061-1067
DOI: 10.1051/dymat/2009148

Shock induced multi-mode damage in depleted Uranium

D.D. Koller, E.K. Cerreta and G.T. Gray III

Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA


Published online: 15 September 2009

Abstract
Recent dynamic damage studies on depleted uranium samples have revealed mixed mode failure mechanisms leading to incipient cracking as well as ductile failure processes. Results show that delamination of inclusions upon compression may provide nucleation sites for damage initiation in the form of crack tip production. However, under tension the material propagates cracks in a mixed shear localization and mode-I ductile tearing and cracking. Cracks tips appear to link up through regions of severe, shear dominated plastic flow. Shock recovery experiments were conducted on a 50 mm single stage light gas gun. Serial metallographic sectioning was conducted on the recovered samples to characterize the bulk response of the sample. Experiments show delaminated inclusions due to uniaxial compression without damage propagation. Further results show the propagation of the damage through tensile loading to the incipient state, illustrating ductile processes coupled with mixed mode-I tensile ductile tearing, shear localization, and mode-I cracking in depleted uranium.



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