Defence Technology (Nov 2023)

Experiment/simulation correlation-based methodology for metallic ballistic protection solutions

  • Yohan Cosquer,
  • Patrice Longère,
  • Olivier Pantalé,
  • Claude Gailhac

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 29
pp. 24 – 38

Abstract

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A methodology is developed based on the coupling of a finite element code with an optimisation module for the design of land vehicle armouring composed of lightweight aluminium alloy and high strength steel plate. Following an experiment/simulation correlation, a numerical model has been built and calibrated considering monolithic plates and then verified considering a bi-metal protection against tungsten carbide projectile mimicking the core of a 7.62×51 AP8 ammunition. In addition, a method is proposed to obtain the vres−vi curve for the full 7.62×51 AP8 bullet from the vres−vi curve obtained from the core only.

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