Break-up of shells under explosion and impact

Details Break-up of shells under explosion and impact Break-up of shells under explosion and impact

2004-07-06

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0407124v1

Phys. Rev. E 71, 016108 (2005)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

11 pages, 14 figures in eps format

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.71.016108

A theoretical and experimental study of the fragmentation of closed thin shells made of a disordered brittle material is presented. Experiments were performed on brown and white hen egg-shells under two different loading conditions: fragmentation due to an impact with a hard wall and explosion by a combustion mixture giving rise to power law fragment size distributions. For the theoretical investigations a three-dimensional discrete element model of shells is constructed. Molecular dynamics simulations of the two loading cases resulted in power law fragment mass distributions in satisfactory agreement with experiments. Based on large scale simulations we give evidence that power law distributions arise due to an underlying phase transition which proved to be abrupt and continuous for explosion and impact, respectively. Our results demonstrate that the fragmentation of closed shells defines a universality class different from that of two- and three-dimensional bulk systems.

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