Influence of thick surface coatings on jet formation in flyer plate impacts

The criteria for jetting upon the impact of flyer plates is that an oblique shock solution in the impact point reference frame does not exist. This criterion has been extensively verified experimentally over the last few decades. Comparatively, there has been no studies in the open literature regarding the jetting criterion for the impact of multi-layered flyers or flyer plates featuring thick coatings. In this work we have developed an experimental set-up that allowed us to determine whether or not the impact of multi-layered flyers resulted in a jet or not using laser heterodyne velocimetry.