Heat Conduction of Copper–Molybdenum Explosive Compacts

Abstract

The thermal conductivity of explosive compacts produced from a copper–molybdenum powder mixture was determined experimentally for the first time. Thermal conductivity was measured by a KT‐6 comparator designed at the Siberian State Institute of Metrology. It is shown that the thermal conductivity of explosive compacts depends on the composition of the starting powder mixture and increases significantly after three hours in a vacuum furnace at a temperature of 900°C. An explosive compaction method was developed to produce cylindrical samples of 30 mm diameter with homogeneous properties without singularities at the center.