DEM/FEM Simulations of Dynamic Response of Projectile Penetrating into Granular Medium

• Published in: Key Engineering Materials Vol. 715; pp. 167 - 173
• Main Authors: Tanigaki, Kenichi, Kobayashi, Hidetoshi, Takeda, Shinnosuke, Ogawa, Kinya, Horikawa, Keitaro
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Zurich Trans Tech Publications Ltd 01.09.2016
• Subjects: Computer simulation; Discrete element method; Dynamic response; Dynamic tests; Dynamics; Mathematical analysis; Penetration; Projectiles; Projectile Penetration; Granular Medium; Wave Velocity; DEM; FEM
• ISBN: 9783038355601; 3038355607
• ISSN: 1013-9826; 1662-9795; 1662-9795
• DOI: 10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.715.167

Dynamic elastic Finite Element Method (FEM) and Discrete element method (DEM) simulations are carried out to investigate dynamic penetration of a projectile into a target of granular medium. It was found that the highly densified region of granular medium was generated just ahead of the projectile and began to propagate spherically with much higher velocity than that of projectile which leaves relatively rarefied medium region. This propagation phenomenon was probably the result of a collision and momentum transfer between particles in target granular medium. The propagation velocity of the densified region decreased during penetration as depending not only on the packing ratio of target medium but also on the projectile velocity. The resistance force of projectile was also investigated in the case of penetration of projectiles with various body lengths. The resistance force increased rapidly and reached to the peak. The peak value was expressed in terms of momentum change of target particles. The resistance force decreased periodically after the peak value. The period clearly depended on the length of projectile. It is obvious that this was caused by the stress wave reverberations in the projectiles with various body lengths.