Research on honeycomb structure explosives and double sided explosive cladding

•Honeycomb structure explosives are used to ensure the quality of charge.•Double sided explosive cladding can clad two composite plates simultaneously.•The critical thickness of explosives decreased significantly.•The energy efficiency of explosives has been significantly improved.•Experiment results can be better predicted by calculation.

In order to resolve the current issues about the backward method of charge and low energy efficiency of explosives, honeycomb structure explosives and double sided explosive cladding were used in the present study. Honeycomb structure explosives are used to ensure the quality of charge. Double sided explosive cladding can clad two composite plates simultaneously. Honeycomb structure explosives and double sided explosive cladding, which significantly reduce the critical thickness of stable detonation of explosives, are used to increase the energy efficiency of explosives and save the amount of explosives. Emulsion explosives with the thickness of 5 mm can be stable detonation. In this paper, the experiment of double sided explosive cladding for two groups of steel of No. 45 with the thickness of 2 mm to steel of Q235 with the thickness of 16 mm and two groups of stainless steel with the thickness of 3 mm to steel of Q235 with the thickness of 16 mm were successfully investigated. Without constraints, the critical diameter of emulsion explosives is 14–16 mm. Compared to the existing explosive cladding method, the consumption of explosives for steel of No. 45 to steel of Q235 and stainless steel to steel of Q235 are reduced by 83% and 77% in the case of cladding the same number of composite plates. The explosive cladding windows and collision velocity of flyer plate were calculated before experiment. It shows that the calculation prefigures exactly the explosive cladding for steel of No. 45 to steel of Q235 and stainless steel to steel of Q235.