Recent Representative IAT Studies in Hypervelocity Penetration Mechanics With Bibliographies

Abstract

The Institute for Advanced Technology (IAT) has conducted, and continues to conduct, a broad program to investigate the penetration characteristics and lethality of rod penetrators. The IAT's investigations are experimental, analytical, and numerical and are concerned primarily with slender rods impacting armor steel and ceramic targets at hypervelocity that is, above about two km/s. This report summarizes the results developed in representative examples of these studies that supported the U.S./IiK Project Arrangement. The work accomplished supports items a), b), and c) of the agreed-upon SOW. Each summary is accompanied by a bibliography listing relevant publications generated at the lAT and elsewhere.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 2002
Accession Number
ADA399785

Entities

People

  • W. G. Reinecke

Organizations

  • University of Texas at Austin

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Ballistics
  • Bibliographies
  • Ceramic Materials
  • Crystal Structure
  • Impact Tests
  • Inorganic Materials
  • Materials
  • Materials Science
  • Mechanical Properties
  • Mechanics
  • Military Research
  • Shaped Charge Jets
  • Shaped Charges
  • Strain Rate
  • Subatomic Particles
  • Terminal Ballistics
  • Two Dimensional

Readers

  • Systems Analysis and Design
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.
  • ballistics.

Technology Areas

  • Hypersonics