"Do you want to understand how projectiles are stopped by, or go through, armours and other materials? Master the fundamentals of impact mechanics through the use of analytical modelling, large scale numerical simulations, and experiments with this practical text. Spans topics i…
"Do you want to understand how projectiles are stopped by, or go through, armours and other materials? Master the fundamentals of impact mechanics through the use of analytical modelling, large scale numerical simulations, and experiments with this practical text. Spans topics i…
This graduate text is indispensable for those wanting to see and understand the mechanics of extreme dynamic events. It describes in detail the mechanics and material models used in understanding impact and penetration events. Covers continuum mechanics, the Hugoniot jump condit…
Conservation laws and the Hugoniot jump conditions -- The behavior of solids : elastic-plastic material response -- Mechanical waves, shocks, and rarefactions -- Elastic-plastic deformation and shocks -- The cavity expansion -- Penetration -- The Tate-Alekseevskii model -- The c…
"Do you want to understand how projectiles are stopped by, or go through, armours and other materials? Master the fundamentals of impact mechanics through the use of analytical modelling, large scale numerical simulations, and experiments with this practical text. Spans topics i…
"Do you want to understand how projectiles are stopped by, or go through, armours and other materials? Master the fundamentals of impact mechanics through the use of analytical modelling, large scale numerical simulations, and experiments with this practical text. Spans topics i…