Hole size from impacts at simulated velocities to 23 km/s

International Journal of Impact Engineering

Volumn 20, Issue 1-5, 1997, Pages 399-410

  Housen, Kevin R ^a   Schmidt, Robert M ^a  

^a BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMPACT TESTING; PLATE METAL; VELOCITY; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS; IMPACTOR;

METEOR IMPACTS;

EID: 0031342584     PISSN: 0734743X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0734-743x(97)87510-0     Document Type: Article

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