Papers by Author: Hideki Hamashima

Abstract: In order to investigate the hazard of the fragments caused by the explosion damage, the simply-simulated explosion experiment and numerical simulation were conducted. In this study, the behavior of the disk supposing the fragment driven by an explosive was investigated. In the experiment, the optical observation using a high-speed camera was performed to obtain the basic data about a disk, such as flying velocity. Moreover, numerical simulation was performed using analysis software LS-DYNA. Comparison and examination for experimental results and numerical results were reported.

Abstract: The food processing technology using a shock wave can prevent deterioration of the food by heat because it can process food in a short time. Generally, since the shock wave used for food processing is generated by underwater explosion, the load of a shock wave to the food becomes very complicated. Therefore, in order to process safely, it is important to clarify the behaviors of the shock wave and the bubble pulse generated by underwater explosion. In this research, in order to investigate the behavior of the shock wave in the water tank used for food processing, the optical observation experiment and the numerical simulation were performed. In the experiment, the shock wave generated by underwater explosion was observed with the high-speed video camera. The numerical simulation about the behavior of bubble pulse was performed using analysis software LS-DYNA. Comparing and examining were performed about the experimental result and the numerical simulation result. The result of the numerical simulation about the behavior of the shock wave generated by underwater explosion and the shock wave generated by the bubble pulse and the bubble pulse was well in agreement with the experimental result.

Abstract: Stress-strain relationships of polycarbonate (PC) were determined over a very wide range of strain rates including shock wave regime. High-velocity plate impact tests, drop-weight tests, and quasi-static tests using universal and Instron testing machines were used for the high strain rate (107 s-1), medium strain rate (102 s-1) and low strain rate (10-4 s-1) tests, respectively. The revised unsteady wave sensing system (UWSS) for plate impact tests was newly developed to determine the stress-strain relationships and Hugoniot linear relation of PC. The system consists of a powder gun for plate impact tests and three polyvenylidene fluoride (PVDF) gauges embedded in the PC utilizing a newly developed nanosecond UWSS. As originally proposed, UWSS is aimed in obtaining experimental inputs for the Lagrangian analysis used to determine the dynamic behavior of materials. The new method to determine also the shock Hugoniot stress-strain curves is proposed for PC at medium particle velocities up to about 1 km/s. The revised, unsteady wave sensing system (M-UWSS, which we proposed before) using plate impact experiment with three PVDF gauges embedded is applied to construct stress-strain curves under shock loading up to Hugoniot stress σH and Hugoniot strain εH. Linear relationship between shock velocity Us and particle velocity Up: Us = C0 + S x Up, where C0 and S are material constants, is used to determine the constant S, since the constant C0 is determined as bulk sound velocity at ambient pressure. By using the momentum conservation and the mass conservation relations, S = (1 - C0 / CH) /εH, is derived from the linear relationship described above, where , ρ is density and CH ≈ Us.

Abstract: Some liquid explosives have two different detonation behaviors: high velocity detonation (HVD) or low velocity detonation (LVD). The detonation behavior depends on the level of the initiating shock pressure. The detailed structure of LVD in liquid explosives has not yet been clarified. A physical model was proposed that LVD is not a self-reactive detonation, but rather a supported-reactive detonation from the cavitation field generated by precursor shock waves. In this study, high-speed photography was used to investigate the detonation behavior of nitromethane (NM) with the various initiating shock pressures. Stable LVD was not observed, only transient LVD was observed. A very complicated structure of LVD was observed: the interaction of multiple precursor shock waves, multiple oblique shock waves, and a cavitation field. Multiple shock waves propagating in non-detonating NM were observed for shock pressures below the range required for LVD, while above the LVD range HVD was observed.