The effect of impact orientation on the critical velocity needed to initiate a covered explosive charge

International Journal of Impact Engineering

Volumn 20, Issue 1-5, 1997, Pages 223-233

  Dickinson, David L ^a   Wilson, Leonard T ^a  

^a NAVAL SURFACE WARFARE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DETONATION; EXPLOSIVES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PLATE METAL; STEEL; TUNGSTEN; VELOCITY;

DETONATION THRESHOLD; IMPACT ORIENTATION EFFECT; JACOBS EQUATION; VULNERABILITY ANALYSIS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 0031344605     PISSN: 0734743X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0734-743x(97)87495-7     Document Type: Article

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