HYPERVELOCITY IMPACT: DEPENDENCE OF CRATER DIMENSIONS ON IMPACT VELOCITY

Abstract

Craters in copper and lead, produced by hypervelocity impact, have been measured and the dimensions correlated with impact velocity. The results indicate that craters scale with about the 1.7 power of velocity, in agreement with computer physics results based upon hydrodynamic calculations.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1965
Accession Number
AD0469918

Entities

People

  • John H. Kineke Jr.

Organizations

  • Ballistic Research Laboratory

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Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Agreements
  • Classification
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Contracts
  • Diameters
  • Explosive Devices
  • Explosives
  • Government Procurement
  • Governments
  • Hypervelocity Impact
  • Impact
  • National Security
  • Observation
  • Security
  • Terminal Ballistics

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Combustion Dynamics and Shock Wave Physics.
  • Regression Analysis.

Technology Areas

  • Hypersonics
  • Hypersonics - Hypersonic Flow