Patterned Armor Performance Evaluation for Multiple Impacts

Abstract

Patterned armor is characterized by an array of repeating cells, such as tiled ceramic armor or reactive armor boxes. Performance characteristics of an ideal patterned armor with respect to multiple hits are discussed, and the types of single-shot ballistic data needed to quantify that performance are presented. An approach to use these data is developed to provide a quantitative measure (probability of nonperforation after a given number of impacts) of the patterned armor performance against multiple impacts. This performance measure can then be compared to a well-posed multiple-hit criterion to assess whether the patterned armor meets the criterion.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 2003
Accession Number
ADA417165

Entities

People

  • William S. de Rosset

Organizations

  • United States Army Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Armor
  • Automatic Weapons
  • Cell Size
  • Coefficients
  • Department Of Defense
  • Dispersions
  • Guns
  • Machine Guns
  • Military Research
  • Muzzle Velocity
  • Probability
  • Reactive Armor
  • Sequences
  • Standards
  • Terminal Ballistics
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Weapons

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