About Colt Cagle
Major Mechanical Engineering
College Engineering
Accomplishments 3rd place poster presenter: URC
Research Interests High velocity impact testing of intemetallic and other reactive composite materials
About the Project
Title The Man with the Golden Gun
Presentation Watch the research video
Mentor Dr. Michelle Pantoya
Mechanical Engineering, Texas Tech University
Comments
It is such an interesting topic. I have a question about your lab setting. Would the data be different if the experiments take place in a larger space rather than a small chamber? Since in real life, firing a gun would rarely happen in such a small space.
This was so cool. I have always thought of combustion to be the simple act of burning things, but this lab incorporates energy and velocity in their experiment which gave me a new perspective.
Does this research have applications other than defence industry?
Understanding the ways that aluminum reacts under all types of stresses gives valuable insight into possible optimizations. Metal fuels as an energy source has always been a topic of discussion, the main problem is that metal fuel particles dont react efficiently. Research such as this can be coupled with other studies regarding single particle combustion to give a more complete picture of how aluminum reacts inately in atmosphere to possibly allow for doping and modifications to take place, resulting in a more useable fuel source.