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ABSTRACTA brittle damage model presented by Grinfeld and Wright of the U.S. Army Research Laboratory was implemented in the LS-DYNA 1 finite element code and applied to the simulation of normal plate-on-plate impact. The damage model introduces a state variable measure of damage that evolves in proportion to the elastic strain energy. The model degrades the elastic shear modulus in proportion to the state variable's current level. In a simulation of normal plate-on-plate impact, the model produced a gradient in elastic properties within the initially homogeneous target, and this gradient led to a partial reflection of the unloading wave. For a range of values for the material constants introduced by the damage model, the target's free-surface velocity showed a gradual increase over time following the arrival of the initial compressive shock. iii