Equivalent Analysis of Thermo-Dynamic Blow-Off Impulse under X-ray Irradiation

Abstract

X-ray thermodynamic effect is an important damage mode for spacecraft. Blow-off impulse as the main thermodynamic damage parameter has been widely studied by combining laboratory and numerical simulations. In this paper, most calculations and analyses have been carried out by using the self-developed software RAMA, including the equivalent calculation of blow-off impulse of monoenergetic and blackbody X-ray, and soft/hard blackbody X-ray irradiated at different incidence angles of LY-12 aluminium target. The results show that the characteristic mono-energetic X-ray can be exploited to simulate the blow-off impulse of the blackbody X-ray under certain conditions as a feasible equivalent method for the equal-flux and equal-impulse relations between mono-energetic and intense pulse blackbody of blow-off impulse. Moreover, the equivalent thermodynamic effect can be achieved between the point source radiation and parallel X-ray of X-ray. Furthermore, the cosine distribution of blow-off impulse is conducive to designing and calculating X-ray radiation load of hard aluminium corresponding to 1–5 keV blackbody spectrum. The mentioned results can be referenced for pulse X-ray simulation source and enhance the fidelity of the thermal-mechanical effect by electron beam. It is noteworthy that the study on the thermodynamic effects of intense pulsed X-ray is of high significance.