Abstract:
In order to study and investigate the shielding efficiency of the armored vehicle design, the computational and experimental simulations of M193 bullet impact on Armox600T armored plate were conducted. M193 bullet is rifle cartridge with medium level of armor piecing treat, whereas Armox600T is globally applied in military armored vehicle. Therefore, they are the promising selection for the initial study and investigation of the bullet impact on the armored plate.
For the computational simulation, the two dimensional explicit nonlinear code was selected to predict the crater geometry, depth, and diameter owning to bullet impacting on the Armox600T plate, while in the case of the experimental investigation, shooting five bullets on the armored plate according to the military ballistic test standard was performed. The computational and experimental results showed that no complete penetrations were observed. The prediction of the geometry and size of forming crater in terms of depth and diameter based on the experiment and computation were agreed well.