Abstract
The damage pattern of rear wall/witness plate could express the fragmentation features of projectile relatively, in the ground-based tests of Whipple shield and its improved structure. In this paper, the damages of rear wall for 20 Whipple shield tests are statistically analyzed, and the linkage between the damages with impact conditions (impact velocity and plate-thickness-to-sphere-diameter ratio) are obtained. The damage pattern of rear wall, or the fragmentation pattern of sphere is defined as Intact, Ruptured and Smashed. The perforation hole on rear wall is described quantitatively. The fragmentation patterns under different impact conditions are analyzed based on the propagation and evolution of shock waves. A series of SPH simulations prove and extend the analytical and experimental works, and clearly reveal the normalized relationship between fragmentation pattern and impact condition.
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