Experimental and numerical study on protective effect of RC blast wall against air shock wave
Available online 18 November 2022
Prototype experiments were carried out on the explosion-proof performance of the RC blast wall. The mass of TNT detonated in the experiments is 5 kg and 20 kg respectively. The shock wave overpressure...
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Multi-stage penetration characteristics of thick ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene laminates
Available online 17 November 2022
To further reveal the failure mechanisms of thick ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) laminates, field firing tests were conducted for 10-, 20-, and 30-mm thick laminates against 12.7-mm...
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Blast resistance of air-backed RC slab against underwater contact explosion
Available online 17 November 2022
Reinforced concrete (RC) structures are common in engineering, and usually exposed to air or water, may be subjected to various blast scenarios. This paper aims to investigate the blast resistance of...
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A simplified approach to modelling blasts in computational fluid dynamics (CFD)
Available online 17 November 2022
This paper presents a time-efficient numerical approach to modelling high explosive (HE) blastwave propagation using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). One of the main issues of using conventional...
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Hybrid gradient vector fields for path-following guidance
Available online 13 November 2022
Guidance path-planning and following are two core technologies used for controlling un-manned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in both military and civilian applications. However, only a few approaches treat...
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Nacre-inspired interface structure design of polymer bonded explosives toward significantly enhanced mechanical performance
Available online 11 November 2022
Realizing effective enhancement to the structure of interface region between explosive crystals and polymer binder plays a key role in improving the mechanical properties of the current polymer bonded...
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Damage of a large-scale reinforced concrete wall caused by an explosively formed projectile (EFP)
Available online 11 November 2022
To quickly break through a reinforced concrete wall and meet the damage range requirements of rescuers entering the building, the combined damage characteristics of the reinforced concrete wall caused...
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Underwater acoustic signal denoising model based on secondary variational mode decomposition
Available online 3 November 2022
Due to the complexity of marine environment, underwater acoustic signal will be affected by complex background noise during transmission. Underwater acoustic signal denoising is always a difficult problem...
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Combustion behavior and mechanism of molecular perovskite energetic material DAP-4-based composites with metal fuel Al
Available online 3 November 2022
Combined with the oxidizer anions and fuel cations, molecular perovskite energetic materials show a good potential. In this work, the combustion behavior and mechanism of metal fuel aluminium (Al) with...
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Tuning the reactivity of Al–Ni by fine coating of halogen-containing energetic composites
October 2022
In this paper, various core-shell structured Al–Ni@ECs composites have been prepared by a spray-drying technique. The involved ECs refer to the energetic composites (ECs) of ammonium perchlorate/nitrocellulose...
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Ablation characteristics of insulator under high-temperature gas dual-pulse erosion
October 2022
This study numerically simulated and investigated the flow field characteristics of a typical dual-pulse solid rocket motor with a soft pulse separation device through thermal insulation ablation under...
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Influence of shaped charge structure parameters on the formation of linear explosively formed projectiles
October 2022
The research of LEFP (linear explosive forming projectile) is of great value to the development of new warhead due to its excellent performance. To further improve the damage ability of the shaped charge...
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Static and dynamic stability responses of multilayer functionally graded carbon nanotubes reinforced composite nanoplates via quasi 3D nonlocal strain gradient theory
October 2022
This manuscript presents the comprehensive study of thickness stretching effects on the free vibration, static stability and bending of multilayer functionally graded (FG) carbon nanotubes reinforced...
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Burning characteristics of high density foamed GAP/CL-20 propellants
October 2022
The monolithic foamed propellants with high densities were prepared by casting and two-step foaming processes. Glycidyl azide polymer (GAP) and isocyanate were used as the binder system and 2,4,6,8,10,12-hexanitro-2,4,6,8,10,12-hexaazaisowurtzitane...
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Novel aluminum-based fuel: Facile preparation to improve thermal reactions
October 2022
To improve the thermal properties of aluminum (Al) in the energetic system, a coated structure with ammonium perchlorate (AP) was prepared by a facile approach. And N, N-Dimethylformamide (DMF) was...
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Sandwich structure for enhancing the interface reaction of hexanitrohexaazaisowurtzitane and nanoporous carbon scaffolds film to improve the thermal decomposition performance
October 2022
Improving the thermal decomposition performance of hexanitrohexaazaisowurtzitane (CL-20) by appropriate methods is helpful to promote the combustion performance of CL-20-based solid propellants. In...
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Investigation of the mechanical and ballistic properties of hybrid carbon/ aramid woven laminates
October 2022
High-performance ballistic fibers, such as aramid fiber and ultra-high-molecular-weight polyethylene (UHMWPE), are commonly used in anti-ballistic structures due to their low density, high tensile strength...
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Explosion temperature mapping of emulsion explosives containing TiH2 powders with the two-color pyrometer technique
October 2022
In the study, the two-color pyrometer technique was used to measure the transient temperature field of emulsion explosives with different contents of TiH2 powders. The experimental results showed that...
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Cell-type continuous electromagnetic radiation system generating millimeter waves for active denial system applications
October 2022
The cell-type continuous electromagnetic radiation system is a demonstration device capable of generating high-power millimeter electromagnetic waves of a specific wavelength and observing their effects...
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Thermal explosion of a reactive gas mixture at constant pressure for non-uniform and uniform temperature systems
October 2022
In this study, the approximate and exact solutions for the stationary-state of the solids model with neglecting reactant consumption for both non-uniform and uniform temperature systems were applied...
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Establishment, simulation and verification of firepower safety control model
October 2022
On a narrow warship platform, the coordinated use of shipborne weapon systems may cause firepower conflicts, which seriously endangers the ship safety. Meanwhile, with directed-energy weapons mounted...
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One-bit splitting deceptive jamming against SAR
October 2022
One-bit quantization is a promising technique due to its performance retention and complexity reduction in a deceptive jammer against synthetic aperture radar (SAR). In this paper, the 1-bit quantization...
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Fabrication and characterization of mussel-inspired layer-by-layer assembled CL-20-based energetic films via micro-jet printing
October 2022
Three-dimensional (3D) micro-jet printing is a droplet deposition technique based on liquid-phase materials. To improve the deposition density and performance of energetic films with micro/nanoscale...
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