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Effect of air gaps on
the ballistic resistance of ductile shields perforated by
nonconical impactors
Gabi Ben-Dor, Anatoly Dubinsky and Tov Elperin |
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Vol. 1 (2006), No. 2, 279–299
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Abstract |
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In Int. J. Solids Struct. 35:23 (1998), pp. 3097–3103, we proved that localized interaction model (LIM) for shield-impactor interaction implies independence of the ballistic limit velocity (BLV) of spaced shield on air gaps and their widths for conical striker. In this study, the effect of deviation from a conical shape on ballistic properties of spaced shield is investigated using two-term LIM. It is found that this effect is insignificant and it causes small changes (of the order of few percent) in the magnitude of the BLV and energy absorbed by a shield. These theoretical predictions are in agreement with the available experimental results. |
Keywords
localized interaction model, ballistic limit velocity,
spaced shield, nonconical impactor
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Milestones
Received: 15 October 2005
Revised: 6 December 2005
Accepted: 20 December 2004
Published: 1 June 2006
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Authors |
| Gabi Ben-Dor | |
| Department of Mechanical
Engineering Ben-Gurion University of the Negev POB 653, Beer-Sheva 84105 Israel |
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| Anatoly Dubinsky | |
| Department of Mechanical
Engineering Ben-Gurion University of the Negev POB 653, Beer-Sheva 84105 Israel |
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| Tov Elperin | |
| Department of Mechanical
Engineering Ben-Gurion University of the Negev POB 653, Beer-Sheva 84105 Israel |
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