Author(s)

V. Sanchez Galvez & F. Galvez Diaz-Rubio

Abstract

Ceramic/composite armours are being increasingly utilised as protective structures against medium calibre projectiles due to its high efficiency compared to monolithic steel armours. Armour design optimisation use to be helped by the utilisation of different design tools, either analytical models that simulate the penetration process by one-dimensional simple equations or numerical hydrocodes that simulate the process by finite element or finite difference methods. An accurate description of the ballistic impact of a medium calibre projectile onto a ceramic/composite armour is far from being fully solved neither by existing analytical models nor by commercial hydrocodes, due to the lack of data of the m

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