Research Article

On the Horizontal Deviation of a Spinning Projectile Penetrating into Granular Systems

Table 1

Parameter values used in simulation.

ParameterValue (normalized)

Number of particles within multisized bed, 2200
Number of particles within monosized bed, 6400
Particle’s diameter within multisized bed, (mm)0.9–2.0 (uniform distribution)
Particle’s diameter within monosized bed, (mm)0.9
Particle’s density within multisized bed, ()1
Particle’s density within monosized bed, ()1
Projectile’s diameter, (mm)6
Projectile’s density, ()3000
Projectile’s impact velocity, (m/sec)30
Time step, (s)