YÜZEY KAPLAMASI VE DESTEK KATMAN İLAVESİNİN ALÜMİNYUM LEVHALARIN BALİSTİK PERFORMANSINA ETKİLERİ

Due to their low density, high structural strength and energy absorption capacity, aluminum alloys are frequently used in lightweight armor systems such as aeronautics applications, offshore platforms, ship components, bridge decks, etc. Impacts or other types of high-speed loading conditions are thus a relevant issue for several of these applications. In these applications, weight of a structure is an important design criterion. For this reason, it’s known that aluminum alloys are preferred instead of conventional steel or concrete. This wide application area considering behavior of materials subjected to high velocity impact load increases the importance of the investigations about solutions to decrease the penetration depth caused by high velocity impact. In this study, influences of ballistic performance improving techniques e.g. surface coating and adding support on high velocity normal impact resistance of aluminum plates were analyzed and compared experimentally