Posted: 12-09-2024

Title: Internal Fireball Reactions, Intensity, and Temperature (IFRIT)

Location: Army Research Lab – Aberdeen Proving Ground – Aberdeen, MD

Description: The project involves implementing a newly designed and constructed DEVCOM ARL hyperspectral imaging system as a novel diagnostic to understand the internal structure of the fireball produced by aluminized explosives. The investigation will focus on optimum pinhole array configurations (spacing, hole size, etc.) of the system for expected fireball scenes. The system will be calibrated using the optimum pinhole array and a blackbody furnace. Students will collect internal fireball data from metallized and conventional HE charges with simple detonation experiments. Time permitting, data processing/management routines will be established.

Requirements: high-speed videography, spectroscopy, pyrometry, energetic materials, reactive materials, optics, photonics

Level: Graduate

Required Major(s) of Participants: Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Materials Science & Engineering, Applied Physics, Physics, Electrical & Computer Engineering