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Specialized Techniques Based on High-Speed Digital Imaging Allow Analysis of Instantaneous Impacts

From PCO AG
 

 

High-speed imaging is used widely to characterize fast events or processes in the military and civilian sciences. Specific applications include ballistics, hypervelocity impact, aeronautical design, and power generation. Spanning these applications is the field of impact physics, which covers a range of related disciplines such as acceleration technology, chemistry, shock-wave physics, fluid dynamics, dynamic material behavior, observation techniques, and numerical and analytical analysis. Its uses include testing modern ammunition and armor (ceramics, fiber-reinforced plastics, and reactive armor) and crash-testing of automotive components, as well as investigation of meteoroid and space-debris protection shields for satellites and space stations. Non-nuclear kill of re-entry vehicles, rockets, spacecraft, and warheads are other examples, together with simulation of cometary impact on earth and planets.

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