钨合金柱形弹超高速撞击水泥砂浆靶的侵彻深度研究

Penetration depth of hypervelocity tungsten alloy projectile penetrating concrete target

In this paper we carried out experiments using two-stage light gas gun with Gram-grade cylindrical tungsten alloy projectiles, impacting concrete targets at velocity from 1.82 km/s to 3.66 km/s ton investigate the cratering mechanism of concrete targets in hypervelocity impact conditions. We obtained the penetration depth and residual length of the projectiles using computerized tomography (CT) and used the numerical simulation results conducted by Euler algorithm to further examine the mechanism of hypervelocity impact, and achieved the following results: (1) The craters were structured by spalling areas and bullet holes; (2) The penetration depth increases at first and then decreases with the increase of the impact velocities, and the maximum penetration depth was 8.5 times that of the projectile length, which showed no significant advantage over low velocity penetration; (3) According to the pressure of the interface of the projectiles and targets, the penetration processes were divided into four stages, of which the quasi-steady stage and the third stage were crucial in determining the total penetration depth; (4) When the projectiles were completely eroded with the increase of the impact velocities, the penetration depth of the quasi-steady stages almost remained the same and the penetration depth of the third stage decreased so that the total penetration depth was observed to increase at first and then decrease.