Capillary Property of Entangled Porous Metallic Wire materials and Its Application in Fluid Buffers: Theoretical Analysis and Experimental Study

Strong impact does serious harm to the military industries so it is necessary to choose reasonable cushioning material and design effective buffers to prevent the impact of equipment. Based on the capillary property entangled porous metallic wire materials (EPMWM), this paper designed a composite buffer which uses EPMWM and viscous fluid as cushioning materials under the low-speed impact of the recoil force device of weapon equipment (such as artillery, mortar, etc.). Combined with the capillary model, porosity, hydraulic diameter, maximum pore diameter and pore distribution were used to characterize the pore structure characteristics of EPMWM. The calculation model of the damping force of the composite buffer was established. The low-speed impact test of the composite buffer was conducted. The parameters of the buffer under low-speed impact were identified according to the model, and the nonlinear model of damping force was obtained. The test results show that the composite buffer with EPMWM and viscous fluid can absorb the impact energy from the recoil movement effectively, and provide a new method for the buffer design of weapon equipment (such as artillery, mortar, etc.).