Performance of carbon fiber reinforced rubber composite armour against shaped charge jet penetration

Lian-Yong Yue,Xu-Dong Zu,Zhen-Yu Gao,Wei Li,Zheng-Xiang Huang,N Qaddoumi,J Devlin,S.-K Koh

doi:10.1051/matecconf/20163901012

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https://doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/20163901012

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Abstract

Natural rubber is reinforced with carbon fiber; the protective performances of the carbonfiber reinforced rubber composite armour to shaped charge jet have been studied based on the depth of penetration experiments. The craters on the witness blocks, the nature rubber based composite plates’ deformation and the Scanning Electron Microscopy for the hybrid fiber reinforced rubber plate also is analyzed. The results showed that the composite armour can affect the stability of the jet and made part of the jet fracture. The carbon fiber reinforced rubber composite armour has good defence ablity especially when the nature rubber plate hybrid 15% volume percentage carbonfiber and the obliquity angle is 68°. The hybrid fiber reinforced rubber composite armour can be used as a new kind of light protective armour.

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Shaped charge jet (SCJ) has an excellent penetration performance and can damage armoured targets effectively as one of the most important against armour weapons
The bulging armour can disturb the stability of the SCJ and has excellent resistance to penetration performance, so it has been widely used in the protective field of armoured vehicles, ships and aerospace
In this paper, we study the protective performance of the carbonfiber reinforced rubber composite armour in which the rubber base is hybrid with carbonfiber at two obliquity(60°, 68°) through depth of penetration (DOP) experiments

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Introduction

Shaped charge jet (SCJ) has an excellent penetration performance and can damage armoured targets effectively as one of the most important against armour weapons. It is an issue of common concern how to protect the armoured vehicles to reduce damage by the SCJ. The bulging armour can disturb the stability of the SCJ and has excellent resistance to penetration performance, so it has been widely used in the protective field of armoured vehicles, ships and aerospace. Fiber reinforced rubber base composite materials are materials with doped fiber by a certain percentage in rubber to obtain specific material properties. Carbon fiber is one kind of reinforcing fibers commonly used

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