Time-resolved penetration into glass: Experiments and computations

The penetration behavior of tungsten-alloy long-rod penetrators into glass targets is investigated and contrasted at two impact velocities, 1.25 km/s and 1.70 km/s. Penetration depths and residual rod lengths were measured by means of a 600-kV flash X-ray system at different times during penetration. The wavecode CTH was used to simulate numerically the experiments using a Drucker–Prager constitutive model, where the constitutive constants were determined from independent characterization experiments. The numerical results are compared to the experimental data and good agreement is shown.