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Shock Thermodynamic Applied Research Facility (STAR)

AP&T provides O&M support for all guns at Sandia National Laboratory's STAR and Explosive Component Facilities (ECF).

The STAR Facility

Ktech's specialists have been performing gas gun O&M since 1960.
AP&T provides certified personnel to support operations of the ECF and STAR guns.


Single and Multi-stage Gun Operations
Gas Guns and Powder Guns
Shock Physics Experiment Design, Fabrication & Conduct
  • Equation of State (EOS) Experiments
  • Spall, Fracture, Fragmentation
  • Ballistic Impact
  • Pillow Technique for 1D Continuous Loading

Instrumentation

  • Impact Velocity, TOR, Tilt
  • Stress
  • Interferometry
  • Temperature
  • Radiography
  • High Speed Photography
Data Analysis
ES&H Documentation and Site Specific Training

Radiograph of debris from copper sphere impacting a steel plate.
 

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