Investigation on the ballistic impact behavior of various alloys against 7.62 mm armor piercing projectile

Materials and Design

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2009-2016

  Demir, Teyfik ^a   Übeyli, Mustafa ^a   Yildirim, R Orhan ^b  

^a TOBB UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND TECHNOLOGY   (Turkey)

^b MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

A. Ferrous metals and alloys; E. Impact and ballistic; Nonferrous metals and alloys

Indexed keywords

EID: 45049083703     PISSN: 02641275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.matdes.2008.04.010     Document Type: Article

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