Punch loading is a loading scenario to study the fracture mechanism of materials at low strain rates.In this paper,three punch loading experimental patterns were chosen for the study of compressional punch loading.A polymer bonded explosive(PBX) simulant was experimentally studied using the digital image correlation(DIC) method.The displacement and strain fields were obtained and the fracture behavior and failure mechanisms of samples were investigated under different punch loading conditions.Moreover,scanning electron microscope(SEM) was used to examine the region of the plastic flow and the damage in the material.The formation of slip bands,shear displacement and fracture of the hard phase particle,were observed on the boundary of the dead zone due to the large shear strains.
Polymer bonded explosives (PBXs) are highly particle-filled composite materials.This paper experimentally studies the tensile deformation and fracture behavior of a PBX simulation by using the semi-circular bending (SCB) test.The deformation and fracture process of a pre-notched SCB sample with a random speckle pattern is recorded by a charge coupled device camera.The displacement and strain fields on the observed surface during the loading process are obtained by using the digital image correlation method.The crack opening displacement is calculated from the displacement fields,the initiation and propagation of the crack are analyzed.In addition,the damage evolution and fracture mechanisms of the SCB sample are analyzed according to the strain fields and the correlation coefficient fields at different loading steps.
Zhongbin Zhou,Pengwan Chen,Baoqiao Guo,Zhuoping Duan,and Fenglei Huang State Key Laboratory of Explosion Science and Technology,Beijing Institute of Technology,Beijing 100081,China
