PENETRATION CONCRETE TARGETS EXPERIMENTS WITH NON-IDEAL & HIGH VELOCITY BETWEEN 800 AND 1100M/S.

In this paper, three types of projectiles were designed, which are based on the physical mechanism of high-speed penetrating into concrete targets. The three types of projectiles are ogive nose followed by cylinder, cone and grooved cone shank respectively, which are made of 30CrMnSiNi2A with the yield strength 1570MPa. The unconfined compressive strength of concrete target for test is 50MPa. Seven experiments for striking velocities between 800 and 1100m/s were conducted. The experiments showed that the projectiles of cone and grooved cone shank have better penetration performances and the penetration channels were very straight. Compared with the cylinder shank projectiles, the cone and grooved cone shank projectiles are more effective under the condition of high velocity penetrating into complex geological materials as concrete or rock. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]