In this study, the perforated steel plates were demonstrated to exhibit high efficiency in protecting against small-caliber armor-piercing projectiles. The oblique hipped armor plates combined with the perforated steel plates acted as an armored vehicle exhaust vent protect against 7.62mm bullet. To enhance the efficiency of the vehicle exhaust, the numerical model was built, consisting of the hipped armor plate, the perforated steel plate and the bullet core. By performing a simple test, the efficiency of the model was verified. After the bullet penetrates the hipped armor plate, the shape of its core changed to be asymmetric. The sizes of the perforated steel plate were preliminarily designed in accordance with the statistical results of numerical simulation. Effects of the perforated steel thickness and the impacting positions on the residual bullet were ascertained. The results of this study were conducive to designing exhaust vents.
Explosion of landmines is recognized as one of the vital threat to armoured vehicles. The detonation of mines may also threaten the survivability of the occupants inside the vehicle by the high intensive blast waves transmitting from vehicle structures. Bottom add-on modules can be very useful to vehicle in blast protecting. The dynamic response of three different add-on structures under bottom explosion was analysed by simulations and experiments. The optimal structure was obtained by computational results and experimental results, and the protection mechanism was summarized based on the research.
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