Bal listic penetration in cement

According to [ 9 , 12 ], material model parameters were determined, which are listed in Table 1. A few City buildings and most public schools and universities. A set of finite element simulations were carried out on the experiments of Forrestal et al. The method of claim 18 wherein ballistic concrete is poured into a mold having removable side walls and the side walls are removed from the mold within 24 hours of completing a pour into the mold. This finite-element code is used to evaluate the consistency of the modelling approach by means of penetration and perforation experiments in UHPFRC blocks. My thought is that concrete would be a lot like steel and the best defense would be a 3 layer defense using cheap sand or dirt in the middle as a defense in depth.

Thread Bullet Penetration on Wood. The concrete surrounding the projectile nose however is subjected to a triaxial state of stress of high intensity that produce pronounced volumetric and shear strains. Tweet this thread Share on Facebook Reddit! TagedPDetermination of the equation of state and its parameters for a given concrete is challenging. We need large size test specimens to properly describe the concrete structure including the coarse aggregates. The constant deceleration is around 4. What about the windows or is this just for a safe room?

It is observed from this table that the mean error of Proposed model is lower than other models. Further, in order to see if advanced training schemes provide better learning than the basic back propagation, a radial basis function RBF network was also used which though requires more neurons but it is sometimes more efficient. This review clearly show that the major unknown in a proper formulation of the penetration problem is the target resistance and its proper modeling is essential for the reliable modeling of the problem. Each mechanism has been investigated independently at the laboratory scale and the role of steel fibres especially has been analysed to understand their influence on the macroscopic behaviour. Introduction TagedPPenetration into concrete is a subject of much interest and of great complexity. Yes it's the hardware store concrete pavers. The neurons employed use the following differentiable transfer function to generate their output:.

Rosenberg and Dekel [ 5 ] analyzed many kinds of numerical simulations of rigid projectiles with different nose shapes penetrating into metal described by elastic-perfectly plastic constitutive model. Simulation of shape variation of projectile nose during high-speed penetration into concrete A formula is developed to estimate the total mass loss of projectile, based on the assumptions that the peeling of molte. It forms a strong bond with many substrate materials such as cement blocks, cement board, gypsum board drywall brick and stucco with tensile and bond strength exceeding the strength of the substrate in many cases. These admixtures stabilize the air bubbles entrained during the mechanical mixing of ballistic concrete by the mixer blades. I would not do this method to protect my child and neither should you. The gradually variational grid scheme was used, and the size of the fine grids at the center of the target is 0. VisuTrac , Aug 21, , 28 replies, in forum: