PERFORATION OF THIN ALUMINUM TARGETS

Abstract

Steel spheres were accelerated to a velocity in the range between 0.5 km/sec to 2.63 km/sec and were impinged normally upon thin targets of aluminum. The amount of energy lost by a pellet in perforating a target was found to be directly proportional to the kinetic energy of the impinging pellet. The minimum amount of energy required for a pellet to perforate Al was found to be an increasing function of target thickness. It was also found that the hole diameter increased as the impact velocity increased.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1958
Accession Number
AD0609030

Entities

People

  • Charles R. Morris
  • Emerson T. Cannon
  • William S. Partridge

Organizations

  • University of Utah

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Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aluminum
  • Birds
  • Diameters
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Energy
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Kinetic Energy
  • Linear Momentum
  • Materials
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Momentum
  • Perforation
  • Photographic Materials
  • Photographs
  • Photography
  • Standards

Fields of Study

  • Physics

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  • Explosive Engineering.
  • Mathematics or Statistics
  • Structural Dynamics.