Statistical characteristics of a debris cloud behind a shield

An engineering model to describe fragments clouds propagating inside spacecraft in consequence of space debris impact on sandwich panel structures

“…As regards debris cloud description, a quite significant amount of experimental as well as numerical results is available in the technical literature with reference to simple plate targets, for which fragments properties are reported for different impact conditions [24,10,9,17,4,23,1,14,2,7,25,6,8]. However, the vast majority of these references considers only aluminum-alloy plates, and debris cloud information is given in a rather heterogeneous way which makes difficult to extrapolate a single synthesis model.…”