Citation

Babu MG, Velmurugan R, Gupta NK. Int. J. Crashworthiness 2008; 13(3): 237-246.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2008, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/13588260801933568

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

This study evaluates the energy absorption, perforation and damage evolution created by cylindrical projectile of different nose geometries in woven roving mat/epoxy laminates with 0.45-degree orientation. A series of ballistic impact tests have been carried out on the laminate with projectile nose geometries representing hemispherical, conical, and conical with round nose and truncated tip. A gas gun projectile launcher set-up was employed to impact the target at different speeds. The damage pattern, perforation mechanism and ballistic limit for each type of projectiles have been studied. Truncated-nose projectile shows the highest ballistic limit while sharp-nose shows the lowest. A quasi-static punch test was carried out on targets with projectiles of above-mentioned nose geometries to assess the damage evolution at a constant strain rate. The maximum load required to cause perforation during punch test was noted for hemispherical-nose projectile. An in-depth layerwise analysis was carried out to analyse the damage in each layer.

Language: en