Citation:
Appleby-Thomas GJ, Hazell PJ, Millett J, Bourne NK. Deviatoric response of an armour-grade aluminium alloy, AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 1195, 2009, pp. 533-536
Abstract:
Aluminium alloys such as 5083 H32 are established light-weight armour materials.
As such, the shock response of these materials is of great importance. The shear
strength of a material under shock loading provides an insight into its
ballistic performance. In this investigation embedded manganin stress gauges
have been employed to measure both the longitudinal and lateral components of
stress during plate-impact experiments over a range of impact stresses. In turn,
these results were used to determine the shear strength and to investigate the
time dependence of lateral stress behind the shock front to give an indication
of material response.