DYNAMIC RESPONSES AND DAMAGES OF WATER-FILLED CYLINDRICAL SHELL SUBJECTED TO EXPLOSION IMPACT LATERALLY

Abstract

AN ACCOUNT IS GIVEN OF SOME PRINCIPAL OBSERVATIONS MADE FROM A SERIES OF EXPERIMENTS IN WHICH METAL CYLINDRICAL SHELLS WERE SUBJECTED TO LATERAL EXPLOSION IMPACT BY DIFFERENT TNT CHARGE MASS AND STAND-OFF DISTANCE. THESE CYLINDRICAL SHELLS WERE ϬLLED WITH WATER IN ORDER TO IDENTIFY THE MAIN EFFECTS PRODUCED BY THE ϬUID-STRUCTURE INTERACTION. IN COMPARISON, THE EXPLOSION IMPACT EXPERIMENTS OF THE EMPTY CYLINDRICAL SHELLS WERE ALSO CARRIED OUT. THE EFFECTS OF TNT CHARGE MASS, STAND-OFF DISTANCE, CYLINDRICAL SHELL WALL THICKNESS AND FILLED FLUID (WATER) ON PERFORATION AND DEFORMATION OF METAL CYLINDRICAL SHELLS WERE DISCUSSED, WHICH INDICATED THAT WATER INCREASED THE WALL STRENGTH OF THE CYLINDRICAL SHELLS UNDER EXPLOSION IMPACT LOADING, AND THE BUCKLING DEFORMATION AND PERFORATION OF THE CYLINDRICAL SHELL WAS SIGNIϬCANTLY INϬUENCED BY THE PRESENCE OF THE WATER; BLAST-RESISTANT PROPERTY OF THE TUBE UNDER EXPLOSIVE IMPACT LOADING OF 200G TNT CHARGE WAS MORE EXCELLENT; DEFORMATION AND DAMAGE OF EMPTY CYLINDRICAL SHELL WERE MORE SENSITIVE TO STAND-OFF DISTANCE CHANGED; AND WALL THICKNESS IS NOT CRUCIAL FACTOR OF INFLUENCING BLAST-RESISTANT ABILITY. ALE FINITE ELEMENT METHOD WAS EMPLOYED TO SIMULATE THE DEFORMATIONS AND DAMAGES OF EMPTY AND WATER-FILLED CYLINDRICAL SHELLS UNDER EXPLOSION IMPACT LOADING. THE EXPERIMENTAL AND COMPUTATIONAL RESULTS ARE IN AGREEMENT, SHOWING THE VALIDITY OF THE COMPUTATIONAL SCHEME IN COMPLEX FLUID-STRUCTURE INTERACTION PROBLEMS INVOLVING METAL MATERIALS SUBJECTED TO EXPLOSION IMPACT.