Accession Number:

ADA278191

Title:

Shaped Charge Liner Materials: Resources, Processes, Properties, Costs, and Applications

Descriptive Note:

Final technical rept.

Corporate Author:

SYSTEM PLANNING CORP ARLINGTON VA

Personal Author(s):

• Buc, Steven M.

Report Date:

1991-02-01

Pagination or Media Count:

17.0

Abstract:

This document contains brief summaries of the mineral availability, primary metal refinement processes, material costs in raw form and as finished shaped charge liners, relevant material properties, and generalized warhead applications of commonly used, candidate, and hypothetical shaped charge and explosively formed penetrator EFP liner materials. Shaped charge warheads, Explosively formed penetrators, Material processing, Liner fabrication costs, Availability, Applications.

Descriptors:

• *SHAPED CHARGES
• *CAVITY LINERS
• METALS
• MATERIALS
• PROCESSING
• COMPOSITE MATERIALS
• FABRICATION
• MOLYBDENUM
• EXPLOSIVES
• COSTS
• AVAILABILITY
• PENETRATION
• COPPER
• ALUMINUM
• ZIRCONIUM
• GOLD
• TANTALUM
• TUNGSTEN
• SILVER
• URANIUM
• MINERALS

Subject Categories:

• Inorganic Chemistry
• Properties of Metals and Alloys
• Ammunition and Explosives

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE