Benefits of Using Lode Angle Dependent Fracture Models to Predict Ballistic Limits of Armor Steel

Production of an Armor Steel Plate and the Study of its Mechanical and Ballistic Properties

Production of an Armor Steel Plate and the Study of its Mechanical and Ballistic Properties

Ballistic Body Armor

P O L Y M E R S Our goal is to prevent the catastrophic failure of ballistic body armor by developing measurements and predictive models to test and determine the long-term reliability of polymers used in ballistic resistant armor. Our approach, which utilizes conventional analytical techniques in addition to newly developed minimally invasive test methods, seeks to identify the chemical and me...

A Lode Angle Dependent Formulation of the Hardening Soil Model

This paper presents a new formulation of a well known double hardening model often referred to as the Hardening Soil model. As an alternative to the existing Hardening Soil model’s Mohr-Coulomb failure surface, the new formulation allows for the incorporation of smooth failure surfaces, such as the failure surface proposed by Matsuoka & Nakai or that proposed by Lade & Duncan. Although the inco...

production of an armor steel plate and the study of its mechanical and ballistic properties

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