Ballistics limit velocity for spherical steel fragments penetrating titanium-alloy target plates

Hai Fu Wang; Zhi Xiong Liu; Shun Shan Feng

Ballistics limit velocity for spherical steel fragments penetrating titanium-alloy target plates

Hai Fu Wang^*, Zhi Xiong Liu, Shun Shan Feng

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School of Mechatronical Engineering

Beijing Institute of Technology

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Abstract

An experimental study on the ballistics limit velocities v₅₀ for steel spheres penetrating normally through TC4, TA7 titanium-alloy plates is carried out, and empirical ballistics limit velocity expressions for TC4, TA7 are established. Experimental results show that v₅₀ decreases exponentially with the sphere diameter when the plate thickness is kept constant, whereas it increase exponentially with the thickness of plates when the diameter of spheres are kept constant. v₅₀ for TC4 plates are much higher than that with TA7 plates under the same experimental conditions. These results can be applied in equivalent target studies on aircraft for vulnerability analysis.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	162-164
Number of pages	3
Journal	Beijing Ligong Daxue Xuebao/Transaction of Beijing Institute of Technology
Volume	23
Issue number	2
Publication status	Published - Apr 2003

Keywords

Ballistics limit velocity
Equivalent target
Titanium-alloy

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