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Recent Insights into Penetration of Sand and Similar Granular Materials

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Shock Phenomena in Granular and Porous Materials

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This chapter is concerned with kinetic energy driven penetration into soils and soil-like granular materials. Historically this is a topic of great interest to military and civil engineers. The response of granular materials to dynamic loading also has implications for many other branches of engineering and planetary physics. Kinetic energy driven penetration refers to movement of projectiles following high-speed impact. For the phenomena discussed in this paper, there are no forces on the penetrator except the force by which the target resists penetration.

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  1. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Manhattan College, New York, NY, USA

    Mehdi Omidvar

  2. Civil and Urban Engineering Department, New York University, New York, NY, USA

    Stephan Bless & Magued Iskander

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Omidvar, M., Bless, S., Iskander, M. (2019). Recent Insights into Penetration of Sand and Similar Granular Materials. In: Vogler, T., Fredenburg, D. (eds) Shock Phenomena in Granular and Porous Materials. Shock Wave and High Pressure Phenomena. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23002-9_5

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