DESIGN OF NEW CONSTRUCTIONS OF TEXTILE ARMOR PANEL USING SUPERCOMPUTING

Design of new constructions of textile armor panel using supercomputing is considered. Numerical experiments were conducted to study the scalability of problems devoted to the dynamic interaction of an indenter with textile armor panels which are located on the backing material by the finite element analysis in the framework of the LS-DYNA software package. Recommendations to increase the protective properties of armor panels have been given.

Keywords

textile armor panel, backing material, impact, FEA model, supercomputer simulation.

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