Impact and Penetration Lab.

Coordinator: Dr. R. Naghdabadi, Tel: (+9821)66165577

Facilities:

-Penetration Test Apparatus

-Taylor Impact Test Apparatus

-Hopkinson Pressure Bar Test Apparatus

-Gas Gun Apparatus for Velocities up to 500 m/s for a 10g Projectile

-Contact and Non-Contact Velocity Measuring Systems

Capabilities:

-Design and Manufacturing of Taylor Impact Test, Penetration Test and Hopkinson Pressure Bar Test

Apparatuses

-Design and Manufacturing of Montact and

-Non - Contact Velocity Measuring Systems.

-Performing Taylor Impact and Penetration Tests up to 500 m/s for a 10g Projectile.

-Performing Hopkinson Pressure Bar Test for Strain Rates up to 10   1/s.

Activities:

-Performing Research on Impact Energy Absorber Structures.

-Determining Material Parameters for High Strain Rate Constitutive Models Using Hopkinson Pressure Bar Test.

-Studying Plastic Deformation of Metals at High Strain rate.

-Numerical Simulation of Penetration into Energy Absorber Structures.