Expanding Fracture of Beryllium Bronze Cylinder Shell

High-speed camera and optical microscope were used to study the expanding fracture characteristic of the beryllium bronze (QBe2) cylinder shell under detonation loading. The experimental result show that the static mechanics characteristics and the dynamic fracture characteristic of the material depend on the material's microcosmic structure. When the microcosmic structure of the material has evident difference, the static mechanics characteristics and the dynamic fracture characteristic of the material will be evident changed. When the basic structure of the material have no evident difference while the number of the strengthen phase in the basic structure is changed, the static mechanics characteristics of the material can be evident different, but the dynamic fracture characteristic of the material will be not greatly changed. A reason for such a behavior might be that the strengthen phase which occurs to the difference of the static mechanics characteristics of the material tends to the identical under detonation loading.