Citation

Sun T, Pei S, Zhang G, Dong Q. J. Trauma 1996; 40(3 Suppl): S50-2.

Affiliation

Department of Mechanics Engineering of Taiyuan, Institute of Machinery, People's Republic of China.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1996, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

8606421

Abstract

We developed a model to simulate a person, with and without protective armor, being subjected to an impact of a high speed, rigid projectile. The complex nature of the head and chest are simulated in our layered, spaced, various thickness targets made of different materials. A rigid projectile-target interaction model is described. Target resistance force was obtained from a generalized Poncelet equation. Good agreement between observed and computed penetration phenomena was obtained.