On the comparison of the ballistic performance of steel and laminated composite armors

Materials and Design

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1257-1262

  Übeyli, Mustafa ^a   Yildirim, R Orhan ^b   Ögel, Bilgehan ^b  

^a TOBB UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND TECHNOLOGY   (Turkey)

^b MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Impact and ballistic; Laminates

Indexed keywords

ARMOR; BALLISTICS; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); FAILURE (MECHANICAL); HARDNESS; LAMINATED COMPOSITES; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS; TESTING;

BALLISTIC TESTING; HIGH STRENGTH LOW ALLOY STEEL; LAMINATED COMPOSITE ARMORS; STEEL ARMOR;

STEEL;

ARMOR; BALLISTICS; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); FAILURE (MECHANICAL); HARDNESS; LAMINATED COMPOSITES; STEEL; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS; TESTING;

EID: 33751509476     PISSN: 02613069     EISSN: 18734197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.matdes.2005.12.005     Document Type: Article

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