A star-shaped flyer for plate-impact recovery experiments
- 1 November 1977
- journal article
- letter
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 48 (11) , 4850-4852
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.323484
Abstract
An eight‐pointed star flyer is shown to cause release waves from lateral boundaries to be confined largely to the outer regions of the target. Analysis and experiment indicate that a central octagonal region is relatively unaffected by lateral release waves. Use of the star flyer in conjunction with a longitudinal‐momentum trap allows the target to be recovered without the central octagonal region undergoing appreciable further inelastic deformation following the passage of the initial plane pulse.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- Radial Stress Release Phenomena in Plate Impact Experiments: Compression-ReleaseJournal of Applied Mechanics, 1972
- Exact Transient Response of an Elastic Half Space Loaded Over a Rectangular Region of Its SurfaceJournal of Applied Mechanics, 1969