ANALYSIS OF IMPACT OF RIGID PROJECTILES ON COMPOUND TARGETS

We developed a model to simulate a person, with and without protective armor, being subjected to an impact of a high speed, rigid projectile , The complex nature of the head and chest are simulated in our layere d, spaced, various thickness targets made of different materials, A ri gid projectile-target interaction model is described, Target resistanc e force was obtained from a generalized Poncelet equation, Good agreem ent between observed and computed penetration phenomena was obtained.