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International Journal Of Chemistry, Mathematics And Physics(IJCMP)

Modeling ratchet growth as porosity creep

Yehuda Partom


International Journal of Chemistry, Mathematics And Physics(IJCMP), Vol-4,Issue-3, May - June 2020, Pages 34-38 , 10.22161/ijcmp.4.3.1

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Irreversible thermal cycling growth (or ratchet growth) of insensitive explosive formulations has been known for years. Traditionally it’s attributed to material texture and to anisotropic thermal expansion. Although this understanding has been accepted for a long time, we’re not aware of any model on the macroscale that connects these material properties to ratchet growth behavior. Thompson et al. [1] have observed that they get growth not just from thermal cycling, but also from a long hold time of the material sample at high temperature, and that such growth resembles creep response. Following their findings we propose here a predictive model for ratchet growth on the macroscale, where we assume that when temperature is increased, growth comes about by porosity (or volume) creep. As is well known, PBXs are prepared by die or isostatic pressing, and at the end of such pressing the material is left at porosity of about 2%, and with substantial residual or internal stress fluctuations in self-equilibrium. We model ratchet growth by assuming that: 1) increasing temperature decreases strength in tension (negative pressure), causing the porosity in the part of the material (in a control volume) that is in tension to creep (slowly increase); and 2) increasing temperature increases the internal pressure/tension fluctuations because of thermal expansion anisotropy, thereby enhancing the rate of porosity creep and ratchet growth. We write down equations for porosity creep and the resulting ratchet growth, and we demonstrate that our modeled ratchet growth results are similar to test data. We do not calibrate the free parameters of our model to reproduce specific data, as we do not own such data.

Irreversible thermal cycling growth (or ratchet growth) of insensitive explosive formulations has been known for years. Traditionally it’s attributed to material texture and to anisotropic thermal expansion. Although this understanding has been accepted for a long time, we’re not aware of any model on the macroscale that connects these material properties to ratchet growth behavior. Thompson et al. [1] have observed that they get growth not just from thermal cycling, but also from a long hold time of the material sample at high temperature, and that such growth resembles creep response. Following their findings we propose here a predictive model for ratchet growth on the macroscale, where we assume that when temperature is increased, growth comes about by porosity (or volume) creep. As is well known, PBXs are prepared by die or isostatic pressing, and at the end of such pressing the material is left at porosity of about 2%, and with substantial residual or internal stress fluctuations in self-equilibrium. We model ratchet growth by assuming that: 1) increasing temperature decreases strength in tension (negative pressure), causing the porosity in the part of the material (in a control volume) that is in tension to creep (slowly increase); and 2) increasing temperature increases the internal pressure/tension fluctuations because of thermal expansion anisotropy, thereby enhancing the rate of porosity creep and ratchet growth. We write down equations for porosity creep and the resulting ratchet growth, and we demonstrate that our modeled ratchet growth results are similar to test data. We do not calibrate the free parameters of our model to reproduce specific data, as we do not own such data.

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