Materials for Shock Mitigation.

Abstract

The objective of this effort was to investigate basic material properties that affect shock wave attenuation in construction materials and field test materials which show promise as external shock mitigators (ESMs). The results of this work demonstrated that very efficient ESM material systems can be produced from plastic containers embedded in low-density foam matrices. Full scale field testing was performed on such a material system using a conventional weapon. (MM)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 1994
Accession Number
ADA297518

Entities

People

  • L. C. Muszyski
  • M. A. Rochefort

Organizations

  • Applied Research Associates (United States)

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Civil Engineering
  • Composite Materials
  • Construction
  • Construction Materials
  • Elastic Materials
  • Ground Shock
  • Literature Surveys
  • Low Density
  • Materials
  • Materials Laboratories
  • Materials Testing
  • Polystyrenes
  • Resins
  • Shock
  • Stress Strain Relations
  • Syntactic Foams
  • Yield Strength

Fields of Study

  • Materials science

Readers

  • Combustion Dynamics and Shock Wave Physics.
  • Mechanical Engineering/Mechanics of Materials.
  • Software Engineering