A comprehensive account of the physical foundations of collision and impact phenomena and their applications in a multitude of engineering disciplines. In-depth explanations are included to reveal the unifying features of collision phenomena in both liquids and solids, and to apply them to disciplines including theoretical and applied mechanics, physics and applied mathematics, materials science, aerospace, mechanical and chemical engineering, and terminal ballistics. Covering a range of examples from drops, jets, and sprays, to seaplanes and ballistic projectiles, and detailing a variety of theoretical, numerical, and experimental tools that can be used in developing new models and approaches, this is an ideal resource for students, researchers, and practicing engineers alike.

Collision phenomena in liquids and solids

Dynamic perforation of viscoplastic plates by rigid projectiles

An examination of long-rod penetration

A brief outline is given of how ceramics came to be considered as armour materials. The major developments in understanding what mechanical properties are relevant to their use in this application are summarised along with experimental techniques for measuring them.

A. Tate

Papers

A simple hydrodynamic model for the strain field produced in a target by the penetration of a high speed long rod projectile

A comment on a paper by Awerbuch and Bodner concerning the mechanics of plate perforation by a projectile