The deployment of peacekeeping forces in conflict areas has shown that some armour systems are not sufficient to meet the latest threats. This applies particularly to lightweight vehicles whose armours give protection only against low calibre ammunitions. The development, production and fielding of add-on armours gives the answers to the demand for mission adjustable protection systems. Add-on armours represent a new protection philosophy, because they are produced as a separate kit, designed to achieve different protection levels. They have several advantages: Separate transport of armour and vehicle, they can be screwed to the main skull structure by crews and they are easily repairable or upgraded. Advanced add-on armours are produced by a clever combination of ceramic tiles backed by metal or composite plates. The utilization of advanced ceramics began in the 1960s when the US Army was demanding lightweight body armours for helicopter crews. Nowadays a wide spectrum of advanced ceramics is currently used for armour production, including alumina, silicon carbide, titanium diboride and boron carbide. Ceramics possess a high protection potential due a moderate density combined to a high compressive strength. But they are too brittle to be used without a ductile material backing. The design of ceramic add-on armours is a difficult task due to the high number of parameters involved: material selection, thicknesses of different materials, impact obliquity, etc. A design based exclusively on experimental tests is therefore expensive in money and time. This paper summarizes the utilization of analytical and numerical computation of ceramic/metal and ceramic/composite add-on armour failure process as valuable tools for armour design optimisation. Some examples are presented showing a good agreement between analytical, numerical and experimental results of residual mass and residual velocity of kinetic energy projectiles after perforation of the add-on armour.


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    Title :

    Analysis of failure of add-on armour for vehicle protection against ballistic impact




    Publication date :

    2009


    Size :

    9 Seiten, 8 Bilder, 1 Tabelle, 10 Quellen




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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