A DIC-based Taylor impact test by measuring inertia force from acceleration distribution to obtain uniaxial stress–strain behavior of pure aluminum

C Gao, T Iwamoto, T Kusaka - International Journal of Impact Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
The digital image correlation (DIC) technique is widely used to capture several kinematical
quantities fields including displacement, velocity, strain, strain rate and acceleration in …

Instrumented Taylor impact test for measuring stress-strain curve through single trial

C Gao, T Iwamoto - International Journal of Impact Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
In our previous study, a modified Taylor impact test instrumented using a Hopkinson
pressure bar and high-speed imaging was proposed to obtain the stress-strain curve at any …

Numerical and experimental studies on specimens with integrated pulse-shaper used for the instrumented Taylor impact test to measure stress-strain curves at high …

C Gao, T Iwamoto, Y Tanaka, T Kusaka - International Journal of Impact …, 2023 - Elsevier
In the previous studies, an instrumented Taylor impact test was established to measure the
stress-strain curve at an ultrahigh strain rate. To calculate the axial stress distribution in the …

Time-resolved characterization of Taylor impact testing

P Jannotti, N Lorenzo, C Meredith - … , Volume 2: Proceedings of the 2020 …, 2021 - Springer
A methodology is presented for characterizing the Taylor impact response of materials using
high-speed digital image correlation. The motivation of this work is to understand material …

Time-resolved characterization of impact testing

P Jannotti - … for Experimental Mechanics Annual Conference and …, 2022 - Springer
Time-resolved impact studies were conducted to bridge the gap between material property
testing and full-scale ballistic experiments. The motivation is to characterize the projectile …

The Novel “Fracture” Gun at the DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory for Precise, Highly Instrumented Impact Experiments

CS Meredith, LS Shannahan - Society for Experimental Mechanics Annual …, 2022 - Springer
This paper describes the novel “fracture” gun recently built at the US Army Research
Laboratory (ARL) to study dynamic deformation and fracture mechanisms under impact …