Simulation of hypervelocity impact on aluminum-nextel-kevlar orbital debris shields

International Journal of Impact Engineering

Volumn 29, Issue 1-10, 2003, Pages 227-235

  Fahrenthold, Eric P ^a   Park, Young Keun ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

Impact simulation; Numerical methods

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; COMPOSITE MATERIALS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SHIELDING; SPACE STATIONS; THERMOMECHANICAL TREATMENT; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

HYPERVELOCITY IMPACT; IMPACT SIMULATIONS; MATERIAL COMPOSITION; MULTI-PLATE SHIELD;

IMPACT TESTING;

EID: 2342454500     PISSN: 0734743X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijimpeng.2003.09.018     Document Type: Conference Paper

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