Research Article
Modeling and Simulation of Ballistic Penetration of Ceramic-Polymer-Metal Layered Systems
Table 2
Numerical simulations.
| Number of tiles × thickness [mm] | Bonding | Polymer | [m/s] | / | | |
| 1 × 38.1 | Free | No | 1030 | 0.502 | 0.842 | 0 | 1100 | 0.757 | 0.775 | 0 | 1160 | 1.038 | 0.718 | 0 | Tied | No | 1030 | 0.136 | 0.957 | 0 | 1100 | 0.194 | 0.942 | 0 | 1160 | 0.617 | 0.828 | 0 |
| 3 × 12.7 | Free | No | 1030 | 1.182 | 0.628 | 0 | 1100 | 1.377 | 0.591 | 0 | 1160 | | 0 | 0.233 | Free | Yes | 1030 | 1.532 | 0.518 | 0 | 1100 | | 0 | 0.183 | 1160 | | 0 | 0.357 | Tied | Yes | 1030 | | 0 | 0.115 | 1100 | | 0 | 0.233 | 1160 | | 0 | 0.304 |
| 6 × 6.35 | Free | No | 1030 | 1.026 | 0.677 | 0 | 1100 | 1.334 | 0.603 | 0 | 1160 | | 0 | 0.219 | Free | Yes | 1030 | | 0 | 0.275 | 1100 | | 0 | 0.352 | 1160 | | 0 | 0.388 | Tied | Yes | 1030 | | 0 | 0.301 | 1100 | | 0 | 0.355 | 1160 | | 0 | 0.417 |
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