In order to calibrate the output of hydrocode simulations of hypervelocity impacts on shielded gas-filled pressure vessels, Light Gas Gun impact experiments were performed. In a first step, tests were performed on so-called equivalent Whipple shield (EWS) configurations having basically the same set
Hypervelocity impacts on gas filled pressure vessels
β Scribed by Michel Lambert; Eberhard Schneider
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 480 KB
- Volume
- 20
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0734-743X
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