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Analysis of impact of rigid projectiles on compound targets
1Department of Mechanics Engineering of Taiyuan, Institute of Machinery, People's Republic of China.
The Journal of Trauma
|March 1, 1996
Abstract:
We developed a model to simulate a person, with and without protective armor, being subjected to an impact of a high speed, rigid projectile. The complex nature of the head and chest are simulated in our layered, spaced, various thickness targets made of different materials. A rigid projectile-target interaction model is described. Target resistance force was obtained from a generalized Poncelet equation. Good agreement between observed and computed penetration phenomena was obtained.