Hypervelocity penetration of plate targets by rod and rod-like projectiles

This paper has summarized the results of experimental tests and analytical studies of the hypervelocity impact of rod and rod-like projectiles which were conducted at the Naval Research Laboratory. The results presented here provide relatively simple analytic expressions from which one can calculate the results of a hypervelocity impact of a rod or rod-like projectile even into complex targets under most impact configurations of interest. The methodology does require a knowledge of certain empirical constants which depend on the projectile and target materials. For those cases where the values of these constants have not been provided, they can easily be determined by performing a relatively few experimental impacts.