The Effect of Interface Treatment on Ceramic Performance and Modeling Dyneema Subjected to Ballistic Impact

Abstract

This work documents two separate studies: one that evaluates the effect material interfaces have on the ballistic response of ceramics; and one that evaluates numerical approaches to model the composite Dyneema. The first study uses several configurations where a ceramic is attached to a metal backing plate and the effect of bonding the plate to the substrate is evaluated. Two material models are used in this study, the Tonge-Ramesh (TR) ceramic model and the Johnson-Holmquist-Beissel (JHB) ceramic model. In the second study several approaches are used to evaluate the ability to model the ballistic response of Dyneema. Experimental ballistic data were provided by the Army Research Laboratory (ARL) and are used to evaluate the numerical approaches. All the work presented herein use a prerelease of the 2017 Beta version of the EPIC code. The remainder of this report presents the results for the bonding study followed by a discussion on modeling Dyneema.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 23, 2018
Accession Number
AD1049816

Entities

People

  • Timothy J Holmquist

Organizations

  • Southwest Research Institute

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Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Boron Carbides
  • Carbides
  • Ceramic Materials
  • Composite Materials
  • Compound Semiconductors
  • Elastic Materials
  • Elements
  • Engineering
  • Experimental Data
  • Failure Mode And Effect Analysis
  • Geometry
  • Materials
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Military Research
  • Silicon Carbide
  • Stiffness
  • Thickness

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  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  • Materials Science and Engineering.
  • Metallurgy