Impact happens when two or more bodies collide, generating very large impulsive forces in a very short period of time during which kinetic energy is first absorbed and then released after some loss. This paper introduces a state transition diagram to model a frictionless multibody collision. Each state describes a different topology of the collision characterized by the set of instantaneously a...

Dual fragment impacts were studied using the Eulerian hydrocode CTH. The purposes of the study were to gain insight into the physical phenomena underlying multiple fragment impacts, and to develop an equation that predicts critical fragment velocity, the velocity at which a fragment must travel to cause a detonation in a covered explosive, for dual fragment impacts. Identical steel fragments we...

This research has concentrated on the physical and socio-economic impacts of vegetation-based management scenarios targeting on flooding and soil erosion issues in the Ramian watersheds. The Ramian watershed with an approximate area of 24000 ha is located in Golestan, Iran. For each sub-watershed, four biological actions (activities) and 16 management scenarios have been considered. Physical im...

  Ceramic materials due to their high compressive strength and hardness have been one of prime candidates in armor design in particular when high level threads (impact velocity above 600m/s) are involved. The aim of this work is to investigate ballistic impact resistance potential for a target plate with novel ceramic inserts as against ceramic tiles. Two size 98% alumina (AL2O3) base ceramic i...

one of the most important problems in schematization and watershed management is determining the watershed measures impacts on flow distribution. flow distribution algorithms grouped into two main types include single flow direction (sfd) algorithm and multiple flow direction (mfd) algorithms. in many package of gis use the single flow direction to runoff routing. in this research studied water...

Examining the impacts of data modification is considered as sensitivity analysis. A lot of studies have considered the data modification of inputs and outputs in DEA. The issues which has not heretofore been considered in DEA sensitivity analysis is modification in the number of inputs and (or) outputs and determining the impacts of this modification in the status of efficiency of DMUs. This pa...