Shame I cannot speak Russian - I have always thought Usherenko's work to be both interesting and thought provoking. For those interested, I attach a presentation with just a little taste of his work.
Usherenko's work on UDP (ultra-deep penetration) has an interesting back story. From memory, he was technical head of a large steelworks in Russia and was asked to investigate failures in the frontal armour of Egyptian owned T-52 tanks during the 7 day war. He discovered that objects as small as sand grains, only a fraction of a mm. in size could penetrate many cms of armour plate - kinetically quite impossible since the grains lacked the mass required to do so.. As you might expect, because of the military involvement, his work was critically examined and replicated in many labs, including by the UK's Defense Research labs at Porton Down, and the USN and DoD labs. Nobody disputed that UDP was a real phenomenon, that according to current physics was impossible to explain.
Here's another paper on this with some attempt to explain the phenomenon...
Abstract
The phenomenon of super-deep penetration of solid microparticles into solid targets under shock has not been interpreted convincingly until now. The concept of highly excited states, developed by V.E. Panin and others, has opened a new path for the interpretation of this phenomenon. According to this concept, under the condition of a highly excited state, the number of allowable structure states in crystals significantly exceeds the number of atoms, i.e., in crystals, new degrees of freedom arise. Highly excited crystals become, in essence, a superposition of several structures. Therefore, in highly excited states, the material of target may be looked at as a system of weakly interacting particles. The application of the theory of a system of weakly interacting particles in this article shows that when the velocity of penetrating particles exceeds the velocity of the thermal motion of particles of the target material, the friction coefficient is inversely proportional to the third power of the relative velocity of penetrating particles. In this way, the effect of losing friction in the penetration of solid particles into solid targets is interpreted.
What do you think is meant by a 'Friction Coefficient'? He is saying this FC = k/v^3. Maybe this is a nucleo-piezo-electric event, where the energy released is the integral over time of a very large number of individual LENR events! Cold fusion utilized for constructing mining equipment self-sharpening tools!
Friction coefficient is normally described as the frictional force (F) between two surfaces in relation to the normal force (N) pushing them together. F/N. Here they are saying that when a lattice becomes 'super -excited' then F/N tends towards 0/0. Since we are talking here about objects moving within in this case a solid medium we must also consider the shear strength of that medium which may become zero or less than zero.
I think this paper does not actually give an explanation for the phenomenon, but does describe certain physical states which must exist/be created for UDP to be observed. I guess it's a help.
Much cheaper than using artificial diamonds for the mining tools!
Much cheaper than using artificial diamonds for the mining tools!
Does this paper suggest such an application or how do you derive that from?
Or in other words, would it be possible to apply this effect to revolutionize tool making industry? Ultra hard surface for mining or metal processing tools? Just for my understanding.
Any further info available?
Thx!
Hi Gerold.
Reading some of Usherenko's earlier work I got the impression he was more interested in creating tooling that exploited the 'jellification' effect on the materials to be cut, in other words tooling systems that created excited states inside the workpiece while managing not to jellify the tools themselves. ~It would be wrong to think if this as merely a method of making suoer-strong tools.
The John Hutchinson jellyfied metals samples come to mind.
The MFMP channel also posted a video of this presentation, I think Bob will probably make a link between this effect and the Hutchinson effect.
Hi Gerold.
Reading some of Usherenko's earlier work I got the impression he was more interested in creating tooling that exploited the 'jellification' effect on the materials to be cut, in other words tooling systems that created excited states inside the workpiece while managing not to jellify the tools themselves. ~It would be wrong to think if this as merely a method of making suoer-strong tools.
Pay attention again to the text that I presented earlier - "...the text presented by Anatoly Ivanovich Klimov at 37 minutes 40 seconds ... The text presented indicates - "Increasing the protective wall of the container from 5 to 200 mm does not ensure the safety of the microcircuit."
Article - "GENERATION OF ENERGY WHEN BURNING ALUMINUM WITH CLUTCHES OF SILICON CARBIDE PARTICLES" - http://book.sarov.ru/wp-conten…Khariton-19-v2-2017-2.pdf
I quote - "For ground testing - testing, chip samples were placed in a sealed
metal container with wall thickness up to 200 mm. The chip container has been subjected to
loading with bunches of dust particles in the range of impact velocities of 300 – 3000 m/s. After
such processing, microcircuits were taken out of the container. The loss of tightness of the container was not discovered.
The microcircuits after processing in the container were examined by visual inspection, X-ray
and testing on a special stand. Bench testing revealed
microcircuits with a deviation of working parameters from admissible values.
Microcircuits with deviations of operating parameters are revealed. After a single
exposure to a container with a microcircuit placed inside it was using a stand
10% of microcircuits with unacceptable parameter deviations were identified. After a triple
processing, the proportion of such schemes reached 33%, and after five times 85%. "
"Conclusion
The process of penetration of bunches of dust particles (based on SiC powders,
fractions 1-100 microns) into commercially pure aluminum (A7). Firmware of commercially pure metal
(99.7% Al) in ultra-deep penetration mode made it possible to obtain direct evidence
energy generation and draw the following main conclusions:
1. The particle acceleration process is implemented by generating energy in the form of numerous
microexplosions along formed channel elements;
2. The process of ultra-deep penetration is accompanied along the axis of the channels in the microexplosion zone
synthesis of new chemical elements (gallium, copper and iron), the share of which reached 25%;
3. An estimate of the initial radius of the synthesis zone was made, during which it was found that the radius
compression zone at a pressure of 1016 N/m2 is approximately equal to 0.746 A;"
So now we need to investigate rail guns to shoot very small projectiles. Maybe that would allow much faster charging times. The Navy was unhappy with the charging time of their 200 mile rail gun replacement for the 5 inch gun. Didn't seem to occur to them that a ship has two sides. Put in a second gun system.😎
Hyper velocity impacts is the field of study of one Navy Researcher that published that obscure paper with an hypothesis that related the effects he saw (Cherenkov radiation) to “cold fusion” and his idea that electrons in a porous ceramic matrix could have the same behavior, idea which he allegedly tested filling an old battery with ceramic beads and electrolyte, and he claims these batteries produce electricity continuously. The experiment seems easy enough to replicate if one would only know which exact material he used.
Very interesting topic.
