Projectile impact modelling techniques and assessment of target material performance

• Main Author: Syngellakis, S
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: WIT Press 2014
• Subjects: Impact
• ISBN: 9781845648794; 184564879X

High energy impact phenomena have been investigated by engineers of various backgrounds and disciplines. Structures often need to be designed against impact or potential attack and on the other hand the removal of decommissioned structures may be achieved by shaped charge impact, alternatively known...

Table of Contents:

• Projectile impact : modelling techniques and assessment of target material performance -- Preface -- Acronyms -- Contents -- Recent advances in Lagrangian computations for ballistics problems involving severe distortions -- GRALE2D – an explicit finite element code for two-dimensional plane and axi-symmetric multi-material ALE simulations -- Predictions of projectile penetration and perforation by DAFL accounting for the free surface effect -- Influence of the constitutive relation in numerical simulations of the perforation of steel plates -- Effect of lateral confinement on penetration efficiency as a function of impact velocity -- The use of 3D numerical simulations for the interaction of long rods with moving plates -- Validation of finite element models of bullet impact on high strength steel armors -- Modeling the 14.5 mm BS41 projectile for ballistic impact computations -- Improvement of penetration performance of linear shaped charges -- Resistance of ultra high performance fibre reinforced concrete to projectile impact -- Impact behavior of hybrid rubber materials under rifle shooting -- Resistance of doped zirconia to ballistic impact -- On the linkage of impact damage to modeling of ballistic performance -- Ballistic tests and numerical simulations for containment capability characterisation of Waspaloy® alloy -- Modelling of bullet perforation of textile targets -- Penetration of a coarse sand target by rigid projectiles -- Impact response and ballistic performances of graphitic foams -- Calculation of depth of projectile penetration into rock -- Analytical and numerical simulations of ballistic impact on composite lightweight armours -- Projectile penetration of sandwich panels with multiple suppressive cores -- Analysis of the kinetic energy transfer to the target during impact of antitank projectiles -- Author index.