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Ballistics, 2nd Edition
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Ballistics, 2nd Edition

by Donald E. Carlucci, Sidney S. Jacobson
August 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
608 pages
21h 36m
English
CRC Press
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454 Ballistics: Theory and Design of Guns and Ammunition
Then, the total time for the shock pulse is the time between impact and the rarefaction
wave reaching the interface or
t
shock
ss s=+=0 228 0 196 0 424.[]. [] .[]µµµ
(16.140)
The material velocity behind the rst rarefaction in the yer is found by solving the right-
going Hugoniot in the yer plate for p
2
= 17.453 GPa. So we have
pcuu su u
2012f0
12
f
=
=−
+−17 453
0
2
.()( )
ρρ
(16.141)
Inserting some numbers in here we have
uu
2f
2
2f
−+=
5 654 4 865 0..
(16.142)
Then,
u
2f
km
s
=
1 059.
(16.143)
Again u
2f
had to be less than u
1
.
Our next task is to nd the pressure behind the rst rarefaction wave in t ...
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