Numerical and experimental study of the impact of small caliber projectiles on ballistic soap

Dyckmans, G.; Ndompetelo, Nsiampa; Chabotier, A.

doi:10.1051/jp4:20020763

Cited by 6 publications

(2 citation statements)

References 0 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…In wound ballistics (the field studying the interactions between bullets and human bodies), soap is broadly adopted as a testing material because of its ability to simulate soft human body tissues in the firing experiments. The plastic quality of soap makes it particularly apt to behaviorally imitate the human flesh: «the choice of soap […] for simulating the behavior of human body tissue [is] guided by the fact that the passage of a projectile through soap, which is characterized by a lot of plasticity, results in a wound channel whose cavity remains visible after the experiments», scholars in wound ballistics explain (Dyckmans et al [2003]: 627). Soap circulates among different domains, performatively acquiring new meanings: it is capable to move from domestic households to military bases to the plastic arts.…”

Section: Explosions Erasures Entanglementsmentioning

confidence: 99%

«Lay it into the open wounds». Art at war in Maria Kulikovska’s performative sculpture

Iacobone

2024

aisthesis

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The paper addresses the work of Ukrainian artist Maria Kulikovska, who resorts to military equipment as artistic materials and to destruction as an artistic method. In the first section, I contextualize Kulikovska’s performative sculpture within art history, claiming that it can be regarded as Destruction Art. In the second section, I turn to Catherine Malabou’s concept of “destructive plasticity” as a philosophical tool of an aesthetics of war, which offers a sound theoretical framework to further understand the implications of Kulikovska’s artistic activity. In the third section, I focus on the main material adopted by Kulikovska, ballistic soap, showing how the artist materially deconstructs inherited dichotomies that keep informing our understanding of wars. By considering the artistic practice of a feminist artist (M. Kulikovska) through the lens of feminist scholarship (K. Stiles, C. Malabou, J. Butler), the paper investigates the relations between war and the arts from a situated perspective.

show abstract

Section: Explosions Erasures Entanglementsmentioning

confidence: 99%

«Lay it into the open wounds». Art at war in Maria Kulikovska’s performative sculpture

Iacobone

2024

aisthesis

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…In addition, for ballistic testing purposes, a combination of availability and ethical considerations means that such experiments will likely involve analogues instead of real-world mammalian tissue samples. Common examples of such simulants include (the monolithic materials) ballistics gelatin [4][5][6] and soap [7][8][9]. However, as touched on above, real-world tissue structures typically comprise multiple (often anisotropic) layers.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Investigation of the high-strain rate (shock and ballistic) response of the elastomeric tissue simulant Perma-Gel®

Appleby-Thomas

Wood

Hameed

et al. 2016

International Journal of Impact Engineering

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

A B S T R A C TFor both ethical and practical reasons accurate tissue simulant materials are essential for ballistic testing applications. A wide variety of different materials have been previously adopted for such roles, ranging from gelatin to ballistics soap. However, while often well characterised quasi-statically, there is typically a paucity of information on the high strain-rate response of such materials in the literature. Here, building on previous studies by the authors on other tissue analogues, equation-of-state data for the elastomeric epithelial/muscular simulant material Perma-Gel ® is presented, along with results from a series of ballistic tests designed to illustrate its impact-related behaviour. Comparison of both hydrodynamic and ballistic behaviour to that of comparable epithelial tissues/analogues (Sylgard ® and porcine muscle tissue) has provided an insight into the applicability of both Perma-Gel ® and, more generally, monolithic simulants for ballistic testing purposes. Of particular note was an apparent link between the high strain-rate compressibility (evidenced in the Hugoniot relationship in the Us-up plane) and subsequent ballistic response of these materials. Overall, work conducted in this study highlighted the importance of fully characterising tissue analogues -with particular emphasis on the requirement to understand the behaviour of such analogues under impact as part of a system as well as individually.

show abstract

Mechanical properties of silicone based composites as a temperature insensitive ballistic backing material for quantifying back face deformation

Edwards¹,

Bain²,

Cole³

et al. 2018

Forensic Science International

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Numerical and experimental study of the impact of small caliber projectiles on ballistic soap

Cited by 6 publications

References 0 publications

«Lay it into the open wounds». Art at war in Maria Kulikovska’s performative sculpture

«Lay it into the open wounds». Art at war in Maria Kulikovska’s performative sculpture

Investigation of the high-strain rate (shock and ballistic) response of the elastomeric tissue simulant Perma-Gel®

Mechanical properties of silicone based composites as a temperature insensitive ballistic backing material for quantifying back face deformation

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About