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MESO-SCALE EXPERIMENTAL & NUMERICAL STUDIES FOR PREDICTING MACRO-SCALE PERFORMANCE OF ADVANCED REACTIVE MATERIALS (ARMS)Grant/Award #: HDTRA1-10-1-0038Jennifer Breidenich, Arun Gokhale, Manny Gonzales, Ashok Gurumurthy, and Naresh Thadhani
ABSTRACTOur collaborative, multi-disciplinary and multi-investigator research project, combines numerical simulations with time-resolved impact experiments, to determine the meso-scale mechanisms of impact-initiated reactions in Ti-Al-B based reactive materials in the form of compacts of powders of different sizes and morphologies. The major goal is to delineate how processes of localized deformation and flow, or fracture and fragmentation, create the dispersion and mixing of reactants and provide the thermal and mass transport resulting in highly exothermic Ti and B intermetallic reaction and/or oxidation reaction (Al or B). The time sequence of events associated with reaction initiation as well as subsequent interactions with the external environment are also being determined. More specifically, the influence of material-inherent elastic/plastic properties and reactant configuration (e.g., porosity, morphology, spacing, distribution, etc., created from a library of microstructures) on mesoscale mechanistic processes and th...