Investigations on Material Casualty of Plates under Impact Load Conditions

Impact problems are typical in nature since they involve geometry, boundary and material non-linearity. The impact of projectiles at sub-ordnance velocities against mild steel, stainless steel and aluminum plates has been studied. In this paper, target plates of 3mm thickness of materials Mild steel, Titanium are made to impact by Tungsten fragment with different velocities 300, 500, 700 and 1000 mm/ms. On impact, kinetic energy and residual velocity of this fragment is plotted to visualize the damage of the respective target plate. It is observed that the element size significantly affects the numerical results. Hence a sufficiently refined mesh is used. Kinetic energy is an essential parameter to be determined in order to study damage behavior of target. Higher the kinetic energy absorption, leads to higher is the damage target. So, higher initial velocities are required for the fragment in order to create the necessary damage in the target.