Recent progress in ALEGRA development and application to Ballistic impacts

International Journal of Impact Engineering

Volumn 20, Issue 6-10, 1997, Pages 779-788

  Summers, Randall M ^a   Peery, James S ^a   Wong, Michael W ^a   Hertel Jr , Eugene S ^a   Trucano, Timothy G ^a   Chhabildas, Lalit C ^a  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; PHYSICS; SHOCK PROBLEMS;

ALEGRA;

BALLISTICS;

EID: 0031356042     PISSN: 0734743X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0734-743x(97)87463-5     Document Type: Article

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