Hypervelocity impacts of orbital debris on an advanced heat shielding material: Comparison of OURANOS computations to experimental results

International Journal of Impact Engineering

Volumn 20, Issue 6-10, 1997, Pages 545-556

  Loupias, C ^a   Sibeaud, J M ^a   Hereil, P L ^a  

^a CENTRE D ETUDES DE GRAMAT   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE MATERIALS; ENGINEERING; EXPERIMENTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPACE DEBRIS;

HYPERVELOCITY IMPACTS;

IMPACT TESTING;

EID: 0031331581     PISSN: 0734743X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0734-743x(97)87443-x     Document Type: Article

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