A numerical investigation on explosive fragmentation of metal casing using Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamic method

Materials and Design

Volumn 51, Issue , 2013, Pages 729-741

  Kong, Xiangshao ^a   Wu, Weiguo ^a   Li, Jun ^a   Liu, Fang ^a   Chen, Pan ^a   Li, Ying ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Explosive fragmentation; Fragment distribution; Metal casing; Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DETONATION; DIGITAL STORAGE; KINETICS; METALS; NUMERICAL METHODS; SHOCK WAVES; STRAIN RATE; VELOCITY;

EXPLOSIVE FRAGMENTATION; FRAGMENT DISTRIBUTIONS; FRAGMENT MASS DISTRIBUTION; FRAGMENTATION PROCESS; METAL CASING; NUMERICAL INVESTIGATIONS; SMOOTHED PARTICLE HYDRODYNAMICS; SMOOTHED PARTICLE HYDRODYNAMICS METHODS;

HYDRODYNAMICS;

EID: 84878363938     PISSN: 02641275     EISSN: 18734197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.matdes.2013.04.041     Document Type: Article

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