Abstract
Recording the trajectory of a fully‐particulated shaped charge jet at two different positions along its flight path, in two mutually orthogonal planes at each recording station, allows the decomposition of the overall transverse velocities of the particles into two components. This can be done by analysing the differences in the deviations observed at the two stations. The overall transverse velocities are composed of the vector sums of those lateral‐ or off‐axis velocities which are intrinsic to the collapse process, and additional increments that are superimposed later as a result of particulation itself. In this paper the “IEPG Shaped Charge” has been used as an example to demonstrate the Double‐OSST measurement technique.
In these experiments, the overall transverse velocities derived are clearly larger than those seen between the collapse line and the first observation station. On the “Z” diagram (dispersion to the charge axis), the measurements made on this shaped charge do not exhibit random radial dispersion in all direction, but rather the particles spread out into a fan which expands more or less within one quadrant.