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ZHOU Zhixuan, WANG Mafa, LI Junling, MA Zhaoxia. Crater characteristics of carbon fiber/epoxy composite under hypervelocity impact in the velocity range from 3.0 km/s to 6.5 km/s[J]. Explosion And Shock Waves, 2022, 42(8): 083301. doi: 10.11883/bzycj-2021-0251
Citation: ZHOU Zhixuan, WANG Mafa, LI Junling, MA Zhaoxia. Crater characteristics of carbon fiber/epoxy composite under hypervelocity impact in the velocity range from 3.0 km/s to 6.5 km/s[J]. Explosion And Shock Waves, 2022, 42(8): 083301. doi: 10.11883/bzycj-2021-0251

Crater characteristics of carbon fiber/epoxy composite under hypervelocity impact in the velocity range from 3.0 km/s to 6.5 km/s

doi: 10.11883/bzycj-2021-0251
  • Received Date: 2021-06-28
  • Rev Recd Date: 2022-03-14
  • Available Online: 2022-03-30
  • Publish Date: 2022-09-09
  • To study the crater’s characteristics of carbon fiber/epoxy composite targets at the impact velocity of 3.0-6.5 km/s, experiments of some composite targets impacted by spherical aluminum projectiles were carried out by applying a two-stage light gas gun in China Aerodynamics Research and Development Center. The targets were one kind of unidirectional braiding laminates made of carbon fiber and epoxy. The density of the targets was 1.5 g/cm3 and the size was 100 mm×100 mm×20 mm. The targets were clamped by two aluminum plates in experiments. One aluminum plate with the thickness of 2.5 mm was set 40 mm behind the targets to test fragments after the targets. The projectile diameter ranged from 1.00 mm to 3.05 mm. The damage feature of each target was obtained. A central crater surrounded with a shallow spalling region was observed in all recovered targets. Different from a semi-spherical crater, the central crater had a proximately quadrate edge, a semi-spherical bottom and a tough and rugged wall. The shallow spalling region was extremely irregular. The parameters of the crater and the shallow spalling region, such as the crater depth, the superficial area of the crater, the superficial area of the spalling region, were measured and analyzed. Moreover, the variations of the dimensionless crater depth p/dp, the dimensionless equivalent crater diameter Dh/dp and the equivalent diameter De of the spalling region with the impact velocity and energy were analyzed. Results show that the p/dp depends on the density ratio ρp/ρt with a power of 1/2, and on the impact velocity vi with a power of 2/3. The results are in good agreement with NASA’s hypervelocity experiments on reinforced carbon-carbon targets. The relationship of Dh/dp with ρp/ρt and vi is similar to that of p/dp with ρp/ρt and vi. De is a power function of impact kinetic energy. The crater-shape coefficient p/Dh is slightly greater than 0.5, which means the crater depth is larger than the crater radius.
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