The main objective of the course is to provide knowledge to students about warheads, ammunition and armor design, and the underlying wound ballistics and human vulnerability. The course will also cover characterization of high energy materials for different properties.
- Design warheads, ammunition and armors.
- Understand fragmentation theory, small arms and cannon ammunition.
- Understand the characterization of high energy materials.
- Introduction to warheads and ammunition, Introduction to armour design
- Wound ballistics and human vulnerability, Fragmentation theory and warheads, Small arms and cannon ammunition, Shell and projectile design
- Target penetration and shock events covering subsonic to hydrodynamic regimes, Shaped charge and Explosively Formed Penetrator (EFP) warhead design, Kinetic Energy (KE) ammunition and penetrator design
- Mine threat and damage mechanisms, Complex armour, spacing, obliquity, disposition and failure mechanisms
- Characterization and testing of materials for high strain rate loading
- Blast effects, blast-structure interactions including internal detonations, Terminal ballistics demonstration.