Abstract:Alekseevskii-Tate (A-T) model is widely used in the terminal ballistic analysis of long-rod projectiles hypervelocity penetrations. The explicit expressions for both strengths of metallic projectile and target in a A-T model were proposed previously. However, there was no uniform conclusion for the strength of ceramic targets in a A-T model, especially, when the initial impact velocity of projectiles was larger than 1 500 m/s. Based on reduce-scaled reverse ballistic test data of long-rod tungsten projectiles hypervelocity (1 500~5 000 m/s) penetrating into three ceramic (AlN,B4C, SiC)/aluminum composite targets, by using A-T model, the expressions of the above three ceramic targets' strengths under various projectile impact velocities were obtained. Furthermore, by comparing the above test data with the DOP tests data of 47 long-rod tungsten projectiles' hypervelocity (1 250~2 500 m/s) penetrating into ceramic (AlN,B4C, SiC, AD85)/RHA steel blocks targets, the applicability of the proposed expressions of ceramic strength were validated.
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