Shaped charge liner method and apparatus
AssigneeJet Physics Limited
InventorAndrew LUMLEY
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Abstract
One or more aspects of the present disclosure relate to a method of at least partly manufacturing a liner for a linear shaped charge. The method can include coating each of a plurality of metal particles with a non-metal, to form a plurality of coated spherical particles; mixing, without a solvent, the plurality of coated spherical particles with a polymer binder and at least one of: a filler, a dry lubricant, or a wet lubricant, until a flexible material is formed with the plurality of coated spherical particles dispersed homogeneously in the polymer binder and the flexible material has a mass of at least 5,700 kg per cubic meter volume of the flexible material; and at least partly forming a liner for the linear shaped charge from the flexible material.
Claims20
A method of at least partly manufacturing a liner for a linear shaped charge, comprising:
- coating each of a plurality of metal particles with a non-metal, to form a plurality of coated spherical particles;
- mixing, without a solvent, the plurality of coated spherical particles with a polymer binder and at least one of:
- a filler,
- a dry lubricant, or
- a wet lubricant,
- until a flexible material is formed with the plurality of coated spherical particles dispersed homogeneously in the polymer binder and the flexible material has a mass of at least 5,700 kg per cubic metre volume of the flexible material;
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- at least partly forming a liner for the linear shaped charge from the flexible material.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.