BALLISTIC IMPACT EXPERIMENTS ON ULTRAHIGH HARD PERFORATED ADD-ON ARMOR
These last years, peacekeeping operations require tactical mobility, therefore vehicles should have a significant weight reduction and especially in the passive armor. In this framework, Le Creusot Research Center (INDUSTEEL, ARCELORMITTAL) is interested in providing greater ballistic protection at lower weight and reasonable cost. As a result, the perforated add-on armor has been developed and widely studied. Based upon experimental data, it is shown that presence of holes together with strength of material is responsible for the high performance of this add-on armor against medium KE projectiles. This paper contains a comparison between the performance of various hardness armors and different shapes of holes. The benefits of perforated MARS(R)300 is discussed and compared to existing add-on armor solutions. The work on perforated add-on armor has now been extended to investigate the perforation mechanism of projectiles of STANAG 4569 level 3 in MARS(R)300 perforated add-on armor.
D. Heritier E. Derassat S. Fonlupt
ArcelorMittal, Global R&D Le Creusot, France ArcelorMittal, Industeel Le Creusot, France
国际会议
25th International Symposium on Ballistics(第25届国际弹道会议)
北京
英文
1501-1508
2010-05-17（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）