HYPERVELOCITY IMPACT ON LAMINATE COMPOSITE PANELS

Abstract Phenomenological results on the damage of flat glass-, aramid- and carbon-fiber reinforced epoxy laminated composites under the impact of steel and glass projectiles at velocity up to 8–11 km/s are presented. The damage of composite panels under hypervelocity impact is shown to differ significally from that observed for elastoplastic materials. However, it is shown that a number of qualititative results may be adequately described by the empirical dependences established earlier for metals.