Armour materials and armoured structures are required to perform under a variety of
dynamic conditions, from local penetration events to global blast loadings. Understanding
how these structures behave is therefore an important aspect for military engineers to
consider. The armour/anti-armour interaction is certainly a dynamic event and one largely
dependent upon the high strain-rate properties and impact behaviour of the materials
involved. However, high velocity impacts do impart a different set of dynamic loads upon an …