Investigation of effect of polyurea on response of steel plates to impulsive loads in direct pressure-pulse experiments

Mechanics of Materials

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 628-639

  Amini, M R ^a   Isaacs, J ^a   Nemat Nasser, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Direct ballistic; Fracture resistance; Steel polyurea bilayer

Indexed keywords

BI-LAYER; BI-LAYER PLATES; BLAST LOADS; CONFINED WATER; FRACTURE RESISTANCE; FRONT FACE; FUNCTION OF TIME; HOLLOW STEEL; IMPULSIVE LOADS; IMPULSIVE PRESSURE; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PEAK PRESSURE; PHYSICS-BASED MODELS; POLYUREAS; PRESSURE PULSE; PULSE EXPERIMENTS; SHOCK LOADINGS; STEEL PLATES; TOTAL FORCE;

BALLISTICS; CAVITATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEFORMATION; EXPLOSIVES; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FRACTURE; HIGH SPEED PHOTOGRAPHY; LOADS (FORCES); PRESSURE EFFECTS;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 77953138727     PISSN: 01676636     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mechmat.2009.09.008     Document Type: Article

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