Projectile Impact
Modelling Techniques and Target Performance Assessment
Published on 4. March 2014
Book
Hardback
244 pages
978-1-84564-879-4 (ISBN)
Description
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 as explosive cutting. The topic of ballistic impact is wide-ranging and encompasses various levels of kinetic energy input as well as a multitude of projectile-target materials and geometries. It has thus become the object of many experimental and analytical investigations resulting in numerous sparsely-spread articles in periodicals and conference proceedings as well as monographs narrowly focusing on specific types and ranges of impact scenarios. This volume describes a broad spectrum of analytical and experimental work in this area, thus providing considerable insight into the complexity and diversity of impact phenomena. By addressing a significant number of important issues it combines, rather uniquely, subject breadth and density with in-depth study of impact events of great engineering interest.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Southampton
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-84564-879-4 (9781845648794)
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Stavros Syngellakis (PhD, Princeton University) has almost forty years of research and teaching experience in solid mechanics and structural engineering. After 32 years as an academic member of the University of Southampton, Dr Syngellakis joined the Wessex Institute of Technology in October 2011 as an Associate Professor. He has published over 100 papers on advanced applications of exact and approximate analytical techniques to a wide range of structural engineering and material technology problems. His current research interests include fatigue crack growth in layered systems; indentation fracture; buckling of laminated plates; projectile penetration mechanics; damage tolerance of composites under high-rate loads. Dr Syngellakis supervised 20 PhD and 1 MPhil programmes to completion and participated in various industry-sponsored research programmes and engineering projects. He is a member of the editorial board of two international journals and a reviewer for numerous others. He has been a member of the scientific advisory committee of, and made invited contributions to, many Boundary Element and other materials-related conferences.
Content
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(R) 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