Accession Number:

ADA556724

Title:

Visualization and Analysis of Impact Damage in Sapphire

Descriptive Note:

Reprint

Corporate Author:

ARMY RESEARCH LAB ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND MD WEAPONS AND MATERIALS RESEARCH DIRECTORATE

Personal Author(s):

• Strassburger, Elmar
• Patel, Parimal
• McCauley, James W.

Report Date:

2011-11-01

Pagination or Media Count:

22.0

Abstract:

This report reviews work carried out with the fully instrumented Edge-on Impact EOI facility at the Ernst-Mach-Institute EMI, using a Cranz-Schardin high speed camera, modified for dynamic photoelasticity, to quantify stress wave propagation, damage nucleation and propagation during high velocity impacts. The experimental technique has been used to examine monolithic single crystal sapphire plates 100 mm x 100 mm x 10 mm in crystallographically controlled directions impacted at about 400 ms with both steel solid cylinders and spheres. The plates were impacted as follows 100 mm x 100 mm large surface r-plane parallel to the a-axis large surface a-plane parallel and perpendicular to the c-axis large surface c-plane parallel to aaxis and impacting perpendicular to r-plane small surface. In certain orientations damage propagation is clearly by macrocleavage with significant cleavage branching. The velocities of damage and cleavage propagation are presented.

Descriptors:

• *DAMAGE
• *SAPPHIRE
• CLEAVAGE
• HIGH VELOCITY
• STEEL
• STRESS WAVES
• WAVE PROPAGATION

Subject Categories:

• Geology, Geochemistry and Mineralogy

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE