ACCELERATING DEVICES USING ENERGY OF POWERFUL EXPLOSIONS

During the period of nuclear underground testing the idea arose at RFN C-VNIITF on simultaneous experiments investigating processes going on during the high velocity impacts using nuclear explosion energy for ac celerating the impactors. Two types of the devices are described for e xperimental simulation of direct impact at which the velocity vector o f the plane impactor is perpendicular to its free surface. The both ty pes of the accelerating devices were successfully tested. Velocities o f the impactors were 2.5 up to 5 km/s. An accelerating device for simu lating the oblique impact was successfully developed. At the ''impacto r'' velocity about 4.5 km/s the value of the angle between the particl e velocity victor and the ground boundary was about 60 degrees.