Predicting ballistic penetration and the ballistic limit in composite material structures

AIAA Journal

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 2366-2368

  Focht, Jeffrey R ^a   Vinson, Jack R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BALLISTICS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; ERROR ANALYSIS; FIBER REINFORCED MATERIALS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; STRAIN;

BALLISTIC PENETRATION;

COMPOSITE MATERIALS;

EID: 0036848409     PISSN: 00011452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.1578     Document Type: Article

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