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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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374 Ballistics: Theory and Design of Guns and Ammunition
In 1886, DeMarre developed a famous formula for the penetration of a plate given a normal
impact:
mV
d
t
d
2
3
14
15
=
α
.
.
(15.8)
where
m is the penetrator mass
V is the impact velocity
d is the diameter of the projectile
t is the plate thickness with α being an empirically derived constant
As a word of caution, many of these formulas are dangerous because of the units in the
empirically derived constant, it is commonplace to see CGS units in these formulas as well.
Over time, many have modied the DeMarre formula and used it in this form
mV
d
t
d
2
3
=
α
β
(15.9)
Here β is an empirically derived consta ...
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