Experimental measurements of hypervelocity impact plasma yield and energetics

International Journal of Impact Engineering

Volumn 20, Issue 6-10, 1997, Pages 663-674

  Ratcliff, Paul R ^a   Burchell, Mark J ^a   Cole, Mike J ^a   Murphy, Tom W ^a   Allahdadi, Firooz ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b USAF   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING; EXPERIMENTS; IONS; IRON; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); RHODIUM;

HYPERVELOCITY IMPACT;

PLASMAS;

EID: 0031371813     PISSN: 0734743X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0734-743x(97)87453-2     Document Type: Article

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