Effectiveness of Explosive Reactive Armor

2011 ◽  
Vol 78 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Meir Mayseless

Explosive reactive armor (ERA) is a type of add-on armor that usually consists of tiles made of two metal plates with an explosive layer in between. The ERA is placed at a certain distance from the main armor to enhance its performance. ERA design is optimized based on the required effectiveness of the tiles. Various methods of defining ERA effectiveness are described. The effectiveness parameters of the mass-flux model and its derivatives, the effect of material properties, the escape length of the jet tip precursor, the explosive layer thickness, and the edge effects are analyzed, and correlations between them are presented. Analysis results are compared with available experimental data and a very good correlation is found.

1969 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 399-407
Author(s):  
Robert B. Herrmann

Abstract The propagation of Rayleigh waves with periods of 0.4 to 2.0 seconds across the Cincinnati arch is investigated. The region of investigation includes southern Indiana and Ohio and northern Kentucky. The experimental data for all paths are fitted by a three-layer model of varying layer thickness but of fixed velocity in each layer. The resulting inferred structural picture is in good agreement with the known basement trends of the region. The velocities of the best fitting theoretical model agree well with velocity-depth data from a well in southern Indiana.


Author(s):  
Han Wang ◽  
Qincheng Bi ◽  
Linchuan Wang ◽  
Haicai Lv ◽  
Laurence K. H. Leung

An experiment has recently been performed at Xi’an Jiaotong University to study the wall temperature and pressure drop at supercritical pressures with upward flow of water inside a 2×2 rod bundle. A fuel-assembly simulator with four heated rods was installed inside a square channel with rounded corner. The outer diameter of each heated rod is 8 mm with an effective heated length of 600 mm. Experimental parameters covered the pressure of 23–28 MPa, mass flux of 350–1000 kg/m2s and heat flux on the rod surface of 200–1000 kW/m2. According to the experimental data, it was found that the circumferential wall temperature distribution of a heated rod is not uniform. The temperature difference between the maximum and the minimum varies with heat flux and/or mass flux. Heat transfer characteristics of supercritical water in bundle were discussed with respect to various heat fluxes. The effect of heat flux on heat transfer in rod bundles is similar with that in tubes or annuli. In addition, flow resistance reflected in the form of pressure loss has also been studied. Experimental results showed that the total pressure drop increases with bulk enthalpy and mass flux. Four heat transfer correlations developed for supercritical pressures water were compared with the present test data. Predictions of Jackson correlation agrees closely with the experimental data.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2119 (1) ◽  
pp. 012079
Author(s):  
I P Starodubtseva ◽  
A N Pavlenko

Abstract The results of computational experiments simulating the triggering of the quench front propagation on the superheated vertically oriented metal plates are presented. The plates are quenched by a gravitationally flowing down liquid nitrogen film. The temperature of the test samples at the beginning of the process was higher than the critical temperature and the Leidenfrost temperature, which means that direct long-term liquid-solid contact is impossible. For this reason, the front is initially motionless. As a result of numerical simulation, a dynamic pattern of the quench front propagation on a high-temperature surface was obtained. Analysis of the results allowed to find the realistic values of heat sink into the cooling medium, as well as the parameters of the local temperature disturbance, its spatial extent and amplitude, at which the conditions are created for triggering the process of quench front propagation on the high-temperature surface. Direct comparison of the numerical simulations results with experimental data on the velocity, geometry of the quench front and on the dynamical pattern of the process confirmed the reliability of the results obtained.


2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mano J. Thubrikar ◽  
Michel Labrosse ◽  
Jihad Al-Soudi ◽  
Brett Fowler ◽  
Francis Robicsek

Abstract Abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA) rupture when the aortic wall cannot withstand the stresses and strains induced by the pulsatile blood pressure. In recent years, different mechanical models of aneurysms have been presented (Vorp et al., 1998, Di Martino et al., 1998, Thubrikar et al., 1999). Although powerful modeling tools such as finite elements are available, there is still a need for experimental data concerning the mechanical properties of the aneurysm wall.


2012 ◽  
Vol 446-449 ◽  
pp. 78-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yue Ling Long ◽  
Jian Cai

A new method based on material properties instead of experimental data was proposed to assess the ductility of concrete-filled steel box columns with binding bars and those without binding bars. Comparison between ductility coefficients based on experimental data and the calculated values by the proposed method shows good agreement.


2001 ◽  
Vol 16 (7) ◽  
pp. 2149-2157 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. C. Fischer-Cripps

The present work is concerned with the methods of simulation of data obtained from depth-sensing submicron indentation testing. Details of analysis methods for both spherical and Berkovich indenters using multiple or single unload points are presented followed by a detailed treatment of a method for simulating an experimental load–displacement response where the material properties such as elastic modulus and hardness are given as inputs. A comparison between simulated and experimental data is given.


2020 ◽  
Vol 143 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Basma Baioumy ◽  
Rachid Chebbi ◽  
Nabil Abdel Jabbar

Abstract Laminar Bingham fluid flow in the entrance region of a circular pipe is investigated using a momentum integral model. The fully developed flow is uniform in the core region, while the velocity changes in the annular part of the cross section of the pipe. The inlet-filled region concept is adopted. In the inlet region, the boundary layer thickness increases until the size of the plug flow area reaches the fully developed flow size. The model converges to the fully developed solution in the filled region. The model provides the velocity, pressure drop, and skin friction coefficient profiles. The pressure drop results are in good agreement with published experimental data. The flow results asymptotically converge to the fully developed values. In addition, the results are consistent with published Newtonian fluid flow experimental data and theoretical results for the boundary layer thickness, pressure drop, and centerline velocity for small values of the Bingham number.


Author(s):  
Wenping Song ◽  
Andrey Ovcharenko ◽  
Guangyu Zhang ◽  
Frank E. Talke

The effect of coating thickness is investigated during transient thermal-mechanical contact between a sphere and a layered surface. The range of coating thicknesses studied was from 0.001≤t/R≤0.1, where t is the coating thickness and R is the radius of the contacting sphere. It was found that for the range of coating thickness and material properties investigated, the coating thickness has only a small effect on the mechanical deformation of the interface. On the other hand, the layer thickness has a large effect on the temperature rise of the interface.


Author(s):  
Yao Yao ◽  
Jared Fry ◽  
Morris Fine ◽  
Leon Keer

Due to the limitation of available experimental data for thermal conductivity of lead free solder and Intermetallic Compound (IMC) materials, the Wiedemann-Franz-Lorenz (WFL) relation is presented in this paper as a possible solution to predict thermal conductivity with known electrical conductivity. The method is based upon the fact that heat and electrical transport both involve the free electrons. The thermal and electrical conductivities of Cu, Ni, Sn, and different Sn rich lead free solder and IMC materials are studied by employing the WFL relation. Generally, the analysis to the experimental data shows that the WFL relation is obeyed in both solder alloy and IMC materials especially matches close to the relation for Sn, with a positive deviation from the theoretical Lorenz number. Thus, with the available electrical conductivity data, the thermal conductivity of solder and IMC materials can be obtained based on the proper WFL relation, vice versa. With the reduction of size of electronic devices and solder interconnects, it has been observed experimentally that solders fail by crack nucleation and propagation near the interface of IMC and bulk solder. A coupled thermal-electrical finite element analysis is performed to study the behavior of lead free solder/IMC interconnects under different electrical current densities. The joule heating, temperature concentration and electrical current concentration effects with a crack propagating near the interface of solder and IMC are investigated numerically. Solder and IMC material properties predicted using the WFL relation are adopted in the computational model. The effects of different thermal and electrical conductivities of solder and IMC materials on interfacial crack tip temperature are analyzed in the present study. By applying the WFL relation, the amount of experiments required to determine the material properties for different lead free solder/IMC interconnects can be significantly reduced, which can lead to pronounced saving of time and cost.


2018 ◽  
Vol 210 ◽  
pp. 04049 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ales Mizera ◽  
Martin Bednarik ◽  
Martin Mizera ◽  
Katarina Tomanova ◽  
Martin Mohorko

To obtain the deeper knowledge about the mechanical behaviour of 3D printed polymeric materials it is necessary to study the material properties from the beginning to the end. The commonly processed polymeric materials (via injection moulding etc.) are already deeply studied and evaluated, but 3D printed specimens in the various orientation build are not yet. In this study the tensile impact test specimens were fabricated via a desktop material extrusion 3D printer Zortrax M200 processing ABS and HIPS in build orientation XY. The 3D printed tensile impact test specimens were examined to compare the effect of layer thickness. Impact pendulum Zwick HIT50P was used for tensile impact tests according to ISO 8256 standard. Optical microscopy was utilized to perform fractography on impact test specimens to explore the effect of the layer thickness on the fracture surface morphology of the failed specimens. This study demonstrates the need for material testing for specific processing as additive manufacturing technologies.


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