Achieving light weight armor design has become an important engineering challenge in the last three decades. As weapons becoming highly sophisticated, so does the ammunition, potential targets have to be well protected against such
threats. In order to provide mobility, light and effective armor protection materials should be used.
In this thesis, numerical simulation of the silicon carbide armor backed by KevlarTM composite and orthogonally impacted by 7.62mm armor piercing (AP) projectile at an initial velocity of 850 m/s is analyzed by using AUTODYN hydrocode. As a first step, ceramic material behavior under impact conditions is
validated numerically by comparing the numerical simulation result with the test result which is obtained from the literature. Then, different numerical simulations
are performed by changing the backing material thickness, i.e. 2, 4, 6 and 8mm, while the thickness of the ceramic is held constant, i.e. 8mm. At the end of the simulations, optimum ceramic/composite thickness ratio is sought.
The results of the simulations showed that for the backing thickness values of 4, 6 and 8mm, the projectile could not perforate the armor system. On the contrary,
the projectile could penetrate and perforate the armor system for the backing thickness value of 2mm and it has still some residual velocity. From these results, it is inferred that the optimum ceramic/composite thickness ratio is equal to about
2 for the silicon carbide and kevlar configuration.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:METU/oai:etd.lib.metu.edu.tr:http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/3/12608858/index.pdf |
| Date | 01 September 2007 |
| Creators | Basaran, Mustafa Bulent |
| Contributors | Parnas, Levend |
| Publisher | METU |
| Source Sets | Middle East Technical Univ. |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | M.S. Thesis |
| Format | text/pdf |
| Rights | To liberate the content for public access |
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