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Copper Hugoniot Measurements to 2.8 TPa on Z

Furnish, Michael D.; Haill, Tom H.

We conducted three Hugoniot and release experiments on copper on the Z machine at Hugoniot stress levels of 0.34 and 2.6 TPa, using two-layer copper/aluminum impactors traveling at 8 and 27 km/s and Z-quartz windows. Velocity histories were recorded for 4 samples of different thicknesses and 5 locations on the flyer plate (3 and 4 for the first two experiments). On-sample measurements provided Hugoniot points (via transit time) and partial release states (via Z-quartz wavespeed). Fabrication of the impactor required thick plating and several diamond-machining steps. The lower-pressure test was planned as a 2.5 TPa test, but a failure on the Z machine degraded its performance; however, these results corroborated earlier Cu data in the same stress region. The second test suffered from significant flyer plate bowing, but the third did not. The Hugoniot data are compared with the APtshuler/Nellis nuclear-driven data, other data from Z and elsewhere, and representative Sesame models.

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Recent research on stishovite: Hugoniot and partial release Z experiments and DFT EOS calculations

Furnish, Michael D.; Shulenburger, Luke S.; Desjarlais, Michael D.; Fei, Yingwei F.

We have conducted a series of ride-along experiments on the Z facility to ascertain the Hugoniot of silica centered in the stishovite phase over a range 0.4 - 1.0 TPa, together with partial release states produced at the interface between the sample and a fused silica window. The stishovite samples were synthesized in a large-volume multi-anvil press at 15 GPa and 1773 K, with an initial density of 4.29 gm/cc. The new Z experiments on stishovite fill in a gap between gas gun experiments and NIF experiments. The states are compared with the Hugoniots of quartz and fused silica for inferences as to EOS. They are generally consistent with Sesame 7360 predictions. Sound speed constraints from these data are discussed. The new Hugoniot data cross over the melting curve of stishovite; together with the partial-release data and predictions from density-functional theory modeling, they provide insights into the properties of solid and liquid under extreme conditions. These data are fundamentally important for understanding the interior of silicate-based super-Earths.

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A data-driven approach for determining time of initial movement in shock experiments using Photonic Doppler Velocimetry

AIP Conference Proceedings

Howard, Marylesa; Diaz, Abel; Briggs, Matthew E.; Crawford, Kristen; Dolan, Daniel H.; Furlanetto, Michael R.; Furnish, Michael D.; Holtkamp, David B.; La Lone, B.M.; Strand, Oliver T.; Stevens, Gerald D.; Tunnell, Thomas W.

Photonic Doppler Velocimetry is an interferometric technique for measuring the beat frequency of a moving surface, from which the calculated velocity profile of the surface can be used to describe the physical changes the material undergoes after high-impact shock. Such a technique may also be used to characterize the performance of small detonators and determine the time at which the surface began moving. In this work, we develop a semi-automated technique for extracting the time of initial movement from a normalized lineout of the power spectrogram near the offset frequency of each probe. We characterize the response bias of this method and compare with the time of initial movement obtained by hand calculation of the raw voltage data. Results are shown on data from shock experiments such as gas gun setups and explosives-driven flyer plates.

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Dynamic Characterization and Stress-Strain Symmetry of Vascomax® C250 Maraging Steel in Compression and Tension

Procedia Engineering

Song, Bo S.; Sanborn, Brett S.; Wakeland, P.; Furnish, Michael D.

Low carbon, high strength steel alloys such as Vascomax steels are used in a wide variety of extreme environments due to their high strength, high fracture toughness, and stability over a wide range of temperatures. In this study, Vascomax® C250 steel was dynamically characterized in compression using Kolsky compression bar techniques at two strain rates of 1000 and 3000 s-1. A pair of impedance-matched tungsten carbide platens were implemented to protect damage to the bar ends. The tungsten carbide platens were experimentally calibrated as system compliance which was then properly corrected for actual specimen strain measurements. In addition, elastic indentation of the high-strength compression sample into the platens was also evaluated and showed negligible effect on the specimen strain measurements. The Vascomax® C250 steel exhibited strain-rate effects on the compressive stress-strain curves. The dynamic yield strength was approximately 18% higher than quasi-static yield strength obtained from hardness tests. The dynamic true stress-strain curves of the Vascomax® C250 steel in compression were also computed and then compared with the previously obtained true tensile stress-strain curves at the same strain rates. The Vascomax® C250 steel exhibited a reasonable symmetry in dynamic compression and tensile stress-strain response. However, the fracture strains in dynamic compression were smaller than those in dynamic tension probably due to different fracture mechanisms in the different loading modes.

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High energy density soft X-ray momentum coupling to comet analogs for NEO mitigation

Acta Astronautica

Remo, J.L.; Lawrence, R.J.; Jacobsen, S.B.; Furnish, Michael D.

We applied MBBAY high fluence pulsed radiation intensity driven momentum transfer analysis to calculate X-ray momentum coupling coefficients CM=(Pa s)/(J/m2) for two simplified comet analog materials: i) water ice, and ii) 70% water ice and 30% distributed olivine grains. The momentum coupling coefficients (CM) max of 50×10−5 s/m, are about an order of magnitude greater than experimentally determined and computed MBBAY values for meteoritic materials that are analogs for asteroids. From the values for comet analog materials we infer applied energies (via momentum transfer) required to deflect an Earth crossing comet from impacting Earth by a sufficient amount (~1 cm/s) to avert collision ~a year in advance. Comet model calculations indicate for CM=5×10−4 s/m the deflection of a 2 km comet with a density 600 kg/m3 by 1 cm/s requires an applied energy on the target surface of 5×1013 J, the equivalent of 12 kT of TNT. Depending on the geometrical configuration of the interaction the explosive yield required could be an order of magnitude higher.

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Dynamic Tensile Characterization of Vascomax® Maraging C250 and C300 Alloys

Journal of Dynamic Behavior of Materials

Song, Bo S.; Wakeland, P.; Furnish, Michael D.

Vascomax® maraging C250 and C300 alloys were dynamically characterized in tension with Kolsky tension bar techniques. Compared with conventional Kolsky tension bar experiments, a pair of lock nuts was used to minimize the pseudo stress peak and a laser system was applied to directly measure the specimen displacement. Dynamic engineering stress–strain curves of the C250 and C300 alloys were obtained in tension at 1000 and 3000 s−1. The dynamic yield strengths for both alloys were similar, but significantly higher than those obtained from quasi-static indentation tests. Both alloys exhibited insignificant strain-rate effect on dynamic yield strength. The C300 alloy showed approximately 10 % higher in yield strength than the C250 alloy at the same strain rates. Necking was observed in both alloys right after yield. The Bridgman correction was applied to calculate the true stress and strain at failure for both alloys. The true failure stress showed a modest strain rate effect for both alloys but no significant difference between the two alloys at the same strain rate. The C250 alloy was more ductile than the C300 alloy under dynamic loading.

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LineVISAR. A fringe-trace data analysis program

Furnish, Michael D.

The line-imaging ORVIS or VISAR provides velocity as a function of position and time for a line on an experimental setup via a streak camera record of interference fringes. This document describes a Matlab-based program which guides the user through the process of converting these fringe data to a velocity surface. The data reduction is of the "fringe trace" type, wherein the changes in velocity at a given position on the line are calculated based on fringe motion past that point. The analyst must establish the fringe behavior up front, aided by peak-finding routines in the program. However, the later work of using fringe jumps to compensate for phase problems in other analysis techniques is greatly reduced. This program is not a standard GUI construction, and is prescriptive. At various points it saves the progress, allowing later restarts from those points.

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LDRD final report : mesoscale modeling of dynamic loading of heterogeneous materials

Robbins, Joshua R.; Dingreville, Remi P.; Voth, Thomas E.; Furnish, Michael D.

Material response to dynamic loading is often dominated by microstructure (grain structure, porosity, inclusions, defects). An example critically important to Sandia's mission is dynamic strength of polycrystalline metals where heterogeneities lead to localization of deformation and loss of shear strength. Microstructural effects are of broad importance to the scientific community and several institutions within DoD and DOE; however, current models rely on inaccurate assumptions about mechanisms at the sub-continuum or mesoscale. Consequently, there is a critical need for accurate and robust methods for modeling heterogeneous material response at this lower length scale. This report summarizes work performed as part of an LDRD effort (FY11 to FY13; project number 151364) to meet these needs.

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2169 steel waveform experiments

Furnish, Michael D.; Alexander, Charles S.; Reinhart, William D.; Brown, Justin L.

In support of LLNL efforts to develop multiscale models of a variety of materials, we have performed a set of eight gas gun impact experiments on 2169 steel (21% Cr, 6% Ni, 9% Mn, balance predominantly Fe). These experiments provided carefully controlled shock, reshock and release velocimetry data, with initial shock stresses ranging from 10 to 50 GPa (particle velocities from 0.25 to 1.05 km/s). Both windowed and free-surface measurements were included in this experiment set to increase the utility of the data set, as were samples ranging in thickness from 1 to 5 mm. Target physical phenomena included the elastic/plastic transition (Hugoniot elastic limit), the Hugoniot, any phase transition phenomena, and the release path (windowed and free-surface). The Hugoniot was found to be nearly linear, with no indications of the Fe phase transition. Releases were non-hysteretic, and relatively consistent between 3- and 5-mmthick samples (the 3 mm samples giving slightly lower wavespeeds on release). Reshock tests with explosively welded impactors produced clean results; those with glue bonds showed transient releases prior to the arrival of the reshock, reducing their usefulness for deriving strength information. The free-surface samples, which were steps on a single piece of steel, showed lower wavespeeds for thin (1 mm) samples than for thicker (2 or 4 mm) samples. A configuration used for the last three shots allows release information to be determined from these free surface samples. The sample strength appears to increase with stress from ~1 GPa to ~ 3 GPa over this range, consistent with other recent work but about 40% above the Steinberg model.

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Soft X-ray shock loading and momentum coupling in meteorite and planetary materials

AIP Conference Proceedings

Remo, J.L.; Furnish, Michael D.; Lawrence, R.J.

X-ray momentum coupling coefficients, C M, were determined by measuring stress waveforms in planetary materials subjected to impulsive radiation loading from the SNL Z-machine. Targets were prepared from iron and stone meteorites, dunite (primarily magnesium rich olivine) in solid and powder forms (∼5 - 300 μm grains), and Si, Al, and Fe. All samples were ∼1 mm thick and, except for Si, backed by LiF single-crystal windows. The spectra of the incident x-rays included thermal radiation (blackbody 170 - 237 eV) and line emissions from the pinch material (Cu, Ni, Al, or stainless steel). Target fluences of 0.4 - 1.7 kJ/cm 2 at intensities 43 - 260 GW/cm 2 produced front surface plasma pressures of 2.6 - 12.4 GPa. Stress waves driven into the samples were attenuating due to the short ∼5 ns duration of the drive pulse. CM was determined using the fact that an attenuating wave impulse is constant, and accounted for the mechanical impedance mismatch between samples and window. Values ranged from 0.8 - 3.1 x 10 -5 s/m. CTH hydrocode modeling of x-ray coupling to porous and fully dense silica corroborated experimental results and extrapolations to other materials. © 2012 American Institute of Physics.

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Assessing mesoscale material response under shock & isentropic compression via high-resolution line-imaging VISAR

Furnish, Michael D.; Furnish, Michael D.; Trott, Wayne T.; Mason, Joshua M.; Podsednik, Jason P.; Reinhart, William D.; Hall, Clint A.

Of special promise for providing dynamic mesoscale response data is the line-imaging VISAR, an instrument for providing spatially resolved velocity histories in dynamic experiments. We have prepared two line-imaging VISAR systems capable of spatial resolution in the 10-20 micron range, at the Z and STAR facilities. We have applied this instrument to selected experiments on a compressed gas gun, chosen to provide initial data for several problems of interest, including: (1) pore-collapse in copper (two variations: 70 micron diameter hole in single-crystal copper) and (2) response of a welded joint in dissimilar materials (Ta, Nb) to ramp loading relative to that of a compression joint. The instrument is capable of resolving details such as the volume and collapse history of a collapsing isolated pore.

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Using the Saturn Accelerator for Isentropic Compression Experiments (ICE)

Furnish, Michael D.; Davis, Jean-Paul D.; Knudson, Marcus D.; Bergstresser, Thomas K.; Deeney, Christopher D.; Asay, James R.

Recently an innovative technique known as the Isentropic Compression Experiment (ICE) was developed that allows the dynamic compressibility curve of a material to be measured in a single experiment. Hence, ICE significantly reduces the cost and time required for generating and validating theoretical models of dynamic material response. ICE has been successfully demonstrated on several materials using the 20 MA Z accelerator, resulting in a large demand for its use. The present project has demonstrated its use on another accelerator, Saturn. In the course of this study, Saturn was tailored to produce a satisfactory drive time structure, and instrumented to produce velocity data. Pressure limits are observed to be approximately 10-15 GPa (''LP'' configuration) or 40-50 GPa (''HP'' configuration), depending on sample material. Drive reproducibility (panel to panel within a shot and between shots) is adequate for useful experimentation, but alignment fixturing problems make it difficult to achieve the same precision as is possible at Z. Other highlights included the useful comparison of slightly different PZT and ALOX compositions (neutron generator materials), temperature measurement using optical pyrometry, and the development of a new technique for preheating samples. 28 ICE tests have been conducted at Saturn to date, including the experiments described herein.

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Radiation-driven shock and debris propagation down a partitioned pipe

International Journal of Impact Engineering

Furnish, Michael D.; Lawrence, R.J.; Hall, Clint A.; Asay, J.R.; Barker, D.L.; Mize, G.A.; Marsh, E.A.; Bernard, M.A.

Two experiments have been performed to measure the effects of pulsed radiation loads on the front of small tubular structures, using as an energy source the X-ray fluence produced by a Z-pinch at the Sandia National Laboratories Z Facility. The project had two major goals: to establish the feasibility of using the Z machine to study the phenomenology associated with debris generation and propagation down tubular structures with partitions; and to use the resultant experimental data to validate numerical hydrocodes (shock physics codes) so that we have confidence in their use in analyzing these types of situations. Two tubular aluminum structures (5 and 10 cm long and 1 cm inside diameter) were prepared, with aluminum partitions located at the front, halfway down the pipe, and at the rear. Interferometry (VISARs) provided multiple velocity histories for all of the partitions. In both experiments, the first barrier, which was exposed directly to the x-ray fluence, was launched into the pipe at a velocity of ∼2 km/s, accelerating to give a mean velocity of ∼ 2.6 km/s. Loss of plate integrity is inferred from the dispersed launch of the second partition at ∼1 km/s. Wall shocks propagating at 4.5 km/s were inferred. Post-test metallography showed evidence of melting and partial vaporization of the plates, and turbulent mixing with material from the walls. Calculations qualitatively agree with the observed results, but slightly overpredict debris velocity, possibly due to overestimates of total energy fluence. An application for this work is the study of techniques for line-of-sight shock and debris mitigation on high-power pulsed power facilities such as Z and its follow-on machines. © 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.

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Gas Gun Impact Testing of PZT 95/5, Part 1: Unpoled State

Furnish, Michael D.; Setchell, Robert E.; Chhabildas, Lalit C.; Montgomery, Stephen M.

In the present study, 10 impact tests were conducted on unpoled PZT 95/5, with 9% porosity and 2 at% Nb doping. These tests were instrumented to obtain time-resolved loading, unloading and span signatures. As well, PVDF gauges allowed shock timing to be established explicitly. The ferroelectric/antiferroelectric phases transition was manifested as a ramp to 0.4 GPa. The onset of crushup produced the most visible signature: a clear wave separation at 2.2 GPa followed by a highly dispersive wave. The end states also reflected crushup, and are consistent with earlier data and with related poled experiments. A span strength value of 0.17 GPa was measured for a shock stress of 0.5 GPa, this decreased to a very small value (no visible pullback signature) for a shock strength of 1.85 GPa.

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