TY - GEN
T1 - Unlocking the physics of hypervelocity impact
AU - Thurber, Andrew
AU - Bayandor, Javid
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Satellites and spacecraft in orbit can impact micrometeorites and other debris at velocities exceeding thousands of meters per second. The shock pressures and temperatures created by these hypervelocity impacts greatly surpass standard material strengths, and deform structures in unconventional failure modes. Under these extreme conditions and strain rates, plastic deformation of a solid can resemble viscous fluidic motion. Using meshless finite element analysis methods, the present research attempts to quantify this fluidic structural response and identify analogous interactions in fluid dynamics.
AB - Satellites and spacecraft in orbit can impact micrometeorites and other debris at velocities exceeding thousands of meters per second. The shock pressures and temperatures created by these hypervelocity impacts greatly surpass standard material strengths, and deform structures in unconventional failure modes. Under these extreme conditions and strain rates, plastic deformation of a solid can resemble viscous fluidic motion. Using meshless finite element analysis methods, the present research attempts to quantify this fluidic structural response and identify analogous interactions in fluid dynamics.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84893005632
U2 - 10.1115/FEDSM2013-16609
DO - 10.1115/FEDSM2013-16609
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84893005632
SN - 9780791855553
T3 - American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Fluids Engineering Division (Publication) FEDSM
BT - ASME 2013 Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting, FEDSM 2013
T2 - ASME 2013 Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting, FEDSM 2013
Y2 - 7 July 2013 through 11 July 2013
ER -