M. Gelenidze, Georgian Technical University, Tbilisi, Georgia; F. D. S. Marquis, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA
It is submitted plasma torch to a detonation jet of plasma allowing to receive very strong shock waves with generation pulse jets of dense plasma. It is considered two kinds of such plasma torches: detonation plasma Torch for processing a surface of materials and detonation plasma torch for drawing coverings on a material a high-speed and high-temperature torch of dense plasma. The detonation plasma torch can ensure a high-temperature and high-speed jet of plasma with the following parameters: temperatures up to 3.105 K, density up to 0.5 g/m3, speeds up to 20000 m/c, thermal stream from a plasma up to 106 w/cm2 frequency of following of shock waves up to 5 Hz. At influence high-temperature and over high speed of a plasma jet with a surface of a firm body there are non equilibrium warmly physical processes at a high pressure, structures resulting in irreversible change and physical properties of a surface, to fixing a microcrystalline and meta stable condition of substance. By introduction in plasma of powders of various metals depending on their mutual solubility with a material of a substrate and existence on the diagram of a condition of these components various intermetallics, change of a chemical compound of a surface is possible. Thus on a surface, due to fast training melt, as a rule it is realized meta stable firm solutions, various chemical compounds, etc. so coverings appear thermodynamically nonequilibrium.
Summary: It is submitted plasma torch to a detonation jet of plasma allowing to receive very strong shock waves with generation pulse jets of dense plasma. Thus can beat parameters are achieved up to: temperatures - 3.105 K, speeds - 20000 m/c, thermal stream - 106 w/cm2, frequency of following of shock waves up to 5 Hz. It enables to change structure and a chemical compound of a surface of a material on which this plasma jet is directed.