Projectile density, impact angle and energy effects on hypervelocity impact damage to carbon fibre/peek composites

International Journal of Impact Engineering

Volumn 26, Issue 1-10, 2001, Pages 381-398

  Lamontagne, Chantal G ^a   Manuelpillai, Gerald N ^a   Kerr, Justin H ^b   Taylor, Emma A ^c   Tennyson, Roderick C ^a   Burchell, Mark J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Composites; Cone angle; Damage; Debris clouds; Density; Energy; Hypervelocity impact; Oblique angle

Indexed keywords

EID: 2342526342     PISSN: 0734743X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0734-743x(01)00110-5     Document Type: Article

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