Proton radiography of reverse ballistic impacts

Brady Aydelotte; Michael Golt; Brian Schuster; Jason Allison; Frank Cherne; Matthew Freeman; Johnny Goett Iii; Brian Hollander; Brian Jensen; Julian Lopez; Fesseha Mariam; Michael Martinez; Jason Medina; Christopher Morris; Levi Neukirch; Adam Pacheco; Mary Sandstrom; Alexander Andy Saunders; Tamsen Schurmann; Amy Tainter; Zhaowen Tang; Dale Tupa; Joshua Tybo; Wendy Vogan-McNeil; Carl Wilde; John Wright

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-95089-1_22

Proton radiography of reverse ballistic impacts

Brady Aydelotte, Michael Golt, Brian Schuster, Jason Allison, Frank Cherne, Matthew Freeman, Johnny Goett Iii, Brian Hollander, Brian Jensen, Julian Lopez, Fesseha Mariam, Michael Martinez, Jason Medina, Christopher Morris, Levi Neukirch, Adam Pacheco, Mary Sandstrom, Alexander Andy Saunders, Tamsen Schurmann, Amy TainterZhaowen Tang, Dale Tupa, Joshua Tybo, Wendy Vogan-McNeil, Carl Wilde, John Wright

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Abstract

Ceramics are important materials due to their high strength and hardness, particularly in armor systems such as personnel body armor where they are used extensively. Understanding the failure process for these types of systems is key to improving their performance. To better understand the process of failure in ceramic materials subjected to ballistic impacts, we planned and executed reverse ballistic experiments to study material failure during impact on a silicon carbide target. The primary diagnostic tool we used was proton radiography conducted at Los Alamos National Laboratory Neutron Science Center (LANSCE) using their 800 mega-electron-volt (MeV) linear accelerator. Proton radiography at this facility is capable of excellent spatial and temporal resolution with up to 31 frames of data captured with variable frame spacing and gate time. We report and discuss some of the results of these experiments.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Dynamic Behavior of Materials, Volume 1 - Proceedings of the 2018 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics
Editors	Jamie Kimberley, Leslie Elise Lamberson, Steven Mates
Publisher	Springer Science and Business Media, LLC
Pages	127-131
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Print)	9783319950884
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95089-1_22
State	Published - 2019
Externally published	Yes
Event	SEM Annual Conference and Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, 2018 - Greenville, United States Duration: Jun 4 2018 → Jun 7 2018

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Name	Conference Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Mechanics Series
ISSN (Print)	2191-5644
ISSN (Electronic)	2191-5652

Conference

Conference	SEM Annual Conference and Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, 2018
Country/Territory	United States
City	Greenville
Period	06/4/18 → 06/7/18

Funding

We gratefully acknowledge the assistance of support staff and technicians at ARL who assisted with preliminary experiments in preparation for the proton radiography experiments at LANL and the support staff and technicians at LANL who helped prepare and execute these experiments. We would like to thank Brian Leavy (ARL) for providing the WHA long rod penetrators. We would also like to thank Lee Magness (ARL), Tyler Ehlers (ARL), Jerry LaSalvia (ARL), and Jim Campbell (ARL) for helpful advice and discussion. Finally, we’d like to acknowledge John Niederhaus of the ALEGRA development team (SNL) for his assistance in debugging simulations which were run in support of these experiments.

Keywords

Ceramic
Damage
Fracture
Impact
Proton radiography

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Aydelotte, B., Golt, M., Schuster, B., Allison, J., Cherne, F., Freeman, M., Iii, J. G., Hollander, B., Jensen, B., Lopez, J., Mariam, F., Martinez, M., Medina, J., Morris, C., Neukirch, L., Pacheco, A., Sandstrom, M., Saunders, A. A., Schurmann, T., ... Wright, J. (2019). Proton radiography of reverse ballistic impacts. In J. Kimberley, L. E. Lamberson, & S. Mates (Eds.), Dynamic Behavior of Materials, Volume 1 - Proceedings of the 2018 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics (pp. 127-131). (Conference Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Mechanics Series). Springer Science and Business Media, LLC. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95089-1_22

Aydelotte, Brady ; Golt, Michael ; Schuster, Brian et al. / Proton radiography of reverse ballistic impacts. Dynamic Behavior of Materials, Volume 1 - Proceedings of the 2018 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics. editor / Jamie Kimberley ; Leslie Elise Lamberson ; Steven Mates. Springer Science and Business Media, LLC, 2019. pp. 127-131 (Conference Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Mechanics Series).

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Aydelotte B, Golt M, Schuster B, Allison J, Cherne F, Freeman M et al. Proton radiography of reverse ballistic impacts. In Kimberley J, Lamberson LE, Mates S, editors, Dynamic Behavior of Materials, Volume 1 - Proceedings of the 2018 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics. Springer Science and Business Media, LLC. 2019. p. 127-131. (Conference Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Mechanics Series). doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-95089-1_22

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