Penetration behavior of reactive projectiles impacting TC4 plates

Abstract

The reactive projectile presents a tremendous potential to induce the combined damage effect of kinetic energy and chemical energy to the plate. A series of ballistic impact experiments and numerical simulation studies were carried out to study the penetration behavior of reactive projectile against TC4 plate. The experimental results showed that with the impact velocity of the reactive projectile increasing from 537m/s to 682m/s, the damage mode of the plate gradually changes from bulge, cross crack to plug. According to the experimental results, the ballistic limit velocity of reactive projectile perpendicular penetrating 5mm TC4 is 648.33m/s. The numerical simulation results showed that the reactive projectile reaches GPa high pressure within a few microseconds when it impacted with the plate. During reactive projectile penetrating TC4 plate, the chemical energy release significantly improves the projectile penetrating ability, and the contribution of chemical energy to projectile penetrating can reach 55.07%.