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CEA-Gramat studies the sensitivity of energetic materials to enhance their security and reliability. The conditions leading to the initiation of an explosive must be understood to control its sensitivity. According to the hot spots theory,…
The shock initiation of energetic materials is mediated by the localization of mechanical energy into hotspots. These originate through the interaction of the shock and material microstructure; the most potent hotspots are formed by the…
In energetic materials, the localization of energy into "hotspots" when a shock wave interacts with the material's microstructure is known to dictate the initiation of chemical reactions and detonation. Recent results have shown that,…
The sensitivity of heterogeneous energetic (HE) materials (propellants, explosives, and pyrotechnics) is critically dependent on their microstructure. Initiation of chemical reactions occurs at hot spots due to energy localization at sites…
Shock wave interactions with defects, such as pores, are known to play a key role in the chemical initiation of energetic materials. The shock response of hexanitrostilbene is studied through a combination of large scale reactive molecular…
Meso-scale calculations of pore collapse and hotspot formation in energetic crystals provide closure models to macro-scale hydrocodes for predicting the shock sensitivity of energetic materials. To this end, previous works obtained…
Shock wave reaction results in various characteristic regimes in porous material. The geometrical and topological properties of these regimes are highly concerned in practical applications. Via the morphological analysis to characteristic…
Direct modeling of porous materials under shock is a complex issue. We investigate such a system via the newly developed material-point method. The effects of shock strength and porosity size are the main concerns. For the same porosity,…
Shockwave interactions with material microstructure localizes energy into hotspots, which act as nucleation sites for complex processes such as phase transformations and chemical reactions. To date, hotspots have been described via their…
Crystals of energetic materials, such as HMX, embedded in plastic binders are the building blocks of plastic-bonded explosives. Such heterogeneous energetic materials contain microstructural features such as sharp corners, interfaces…
Numerous crystal- and microstructural-level mechanisms are at play in the formation of hotspots, which are known to govern high explosive initiation behavior. Most of these mechanisms, including pore collapse, interfacial friction, and…
A critical point of the energy dispersion is the momentum where electron velocity vanishes. At the corresponding energy, the density of states (DOS) exhibits non-analyticity such as divergence. Critical points can be first classified as…
The collapse of cavities under shock is a key problem in various fields ranging from erosion of material, ignition of explosive, to sonoluminescence, etc. We study such processes using the material-point-method developed recently in the…
Atomistic and continuum scale modeling efforts have shown that shock induced collapse of porosity can occur via a wide range of mechanisms dependent on pore morphology, shockwave pressure, and material properties. The mechanisms that occur…
Criterion for contacting is critically important for the Generalized Interpolation Material Point(GIMP) method. We present an improved criterion by adding a switching function. With the method dynamical response of high melting…
Rheological properties of a dense granular material consisting of frictionless spheres are investigated. It is found that the shear stress, the pressure, and the kinetic temperature obey critical scaling near the jamming transition point,…
Brittle materials fail catastrophically. In consequence of their limited flaw-tolerance, failure occurs by localized fracture and is typically a dynamic process. Recently, experiments on epithelial cell monolayers have revealed that this…
Homogeneous nucleation of a new phase near an Ising-like critical point of another phase transition is studied. A scaling analysis shows that the free energy barrier to nucleation contains a singular term with the same scaling as the order…
The incredible thermo-mechanical properties of biological materials arise from the microscopic scale due to a complex hierarchical mechanism, regulated by microinstabilities at the molecular level. The description of such complex structures…
Cyclic loading is a common feature in poroelastic systems, the material response depending non-trivially on the exact form of boundary conditions, pore structure, and mechanical properties. The situation becomes more complex when…