Journal of Shanghai University(Natural Science Edition) ›› 2020, Vol. 26 ›› Issue (2): 234-243.doi: 10.12066/j.issn.1007-2861.2037

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Anti-penetration capability of SiC/UHMWPE composite armour plates through experimental and numerical simulation

LIU Di, XIAO Yi(), JIANG Xuwei, LI Hong, YU Mingming, REN Musu, SUN Jinliang   

  1. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China
  • Received:2018-01-30 Online:2020-04-30 Published:2020-01-31
  • Contact: XIAO Yi E-mail:yixiao@shu.edu.cn

Abstract:

With the hard-soft structure of silicon carbide (SiC) ceramics with ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE), four light-weight composite armour plates for different ratios have been designed. Tests on the penetration capability of several different types of small-bore bullets impacting each composite armour plate have been conducted, and numerical simulation analysis through the LS-DYNA program for the penetration process has been carried out as well. The test results and the numerical simulation results are found to be in good agreement. This indicates that the light-weight composite armour plates of hard-soft structure can effectively block the penetration from 7.62 and 5.8 mm small-bore bullets and greatly improves the protection capability.

Key words: penetration, LS-DYNA, ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE), composite armor plate, numerical simulation

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