Open AccessBallistic Performance Evaluation of Aluminium Plate Impact by Fragment Simulating Projectile
Author(s) -
Aziz Aziz,
Mohd Faez Zainol,
Radiah Othman
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of physics. conference series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1742-6596
pISSN - 1742-6588
DOI - 10.1088/1742-6596/1535/1/012017
Subject(s) - projectile , ballistic limit , penetration (warfare) , christian ministry , ballistics , perforation , physics , limiting , mechanics , materials science , engineering , law , mechanical engineering , operations research , composite material , political science , punching , quantum mechanics
The ballistic performance has drawn attention to researchers from a military background. They intend to provide solutions to ensure the soldiers in the front line of war do not kill in action. A casualty in war can lead to depression among soldiers and not to mention to their family as well. The aim of this work is to provide preliminary data for the ballistic limit velocity, VBL of the hydrodynamic ram study. The test was conducted at Science and Technology Research Institute (STRIDE), Batu Arang, Selangor which is under the Ministry of Defence (MINDEF) Malaysia. The gas gun and fragment simulating projectiles (FSP) were employed in this test. There were about 16 rounds of fire were shot with different velocities from 246 up to 373 m/s. The ballistic limit velocity was calculated by taking the average of an equal number of highest partial perforation and the lowest perforation velocities. It was found that the VBL was equal to 275.8 m/s. On top of that, there were two main failure modes observed i.e. partial penetration and complete penetration.