2005/07/13 by Hiroaki Katsuragi, Satoshi Ihara, Haruo Honjo · 1 citation
Engineering · Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #High-Velocity Impact and Material Behavior #Ion-surface interactions and analysis #cond-mat.stat-mech #nlin.AO #physics.geo-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.95.095503
published as Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 095503 (2005) · 5 pages, 6 figures
arxiv created 2005/07/13 · openalex publication_date 2005/08/23 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
This study experimentally examined the explosive fragmentation of thin ceramic tubes using pulsed power. A thin ceramic tube was threaded on a thin copper wire, and high voltage was applied to the wire using a pulsed power generator. This melted the wire and the resulting vapor put pressure on the ceramic tube, causing it to fragment. We examined the statistical properties of the fragment mass distribution. The cumulative fragment mass distribution obeyed the double exponential or power law with exponential decay. Both distributions agreed well with the experimental data. Finally, we obtained universal scaling for fragmentation, which is applicable to both impact and explosive fragmentation.