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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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TYPE SAND Report YEAR 2014
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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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TYPE SAND Report YEAR 2013
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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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TYPE SAND Report YEAR 2012
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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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TYPE Conference YEAR 2012
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