Influence and Its Mechanism of Non-reactive Fillers on the Dispersion Characteristics of the Fragments from Charge Structures

With the diversified development of innovative warheads and the increasing threat of improvised explosive devices (IEDs), the charge structure filled with both explosives and non-reactive materials has attracted the attention of researchers, which is few studied. In order to obtain the fragmentation of the charge structure with part of the non-reactive filler, the X-ray radiography explosion experiment was carried out for an axisymmetric charge structure partially filled with nylon that serves as a typical non-reactive filler. The fragmentation and fragment dispersion characteristics of the charge structure were observed. Based on the results of X-ray experiments, the influence mechanism of shell breakage and fragment dispersion characteristics of the charge structure filled with non-reactive filler are analysed by using SPH numerical calculation method. The results show that the non-reactive filler will significantly affect the fragmentation of the shell and considerably reduce the fragment velocity of the fragments in the filling direction. However, the fragment dispersion direction of the charge structure is not affected by the non-reactive filler. The conclusions could be a foundation and reference for further research on new charge structures.