The problem associated with protecting space vehicles from space debris impact is described. Numerical simulation is espoused as a useful complement to experimentation: as a means to help understand and describe the hypervelocity impact phenomena. The capabilities of a PC-based hydrocode, ZeuS, are described, for application to the problem of hypervelocity impact. Finally, results of ZeuS simulations, as applied to the problem of bumper shield impact, are presented and compared with experimental results.


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    Title :

    Hypervelocity impact simulations of Whipple shields


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    Publication date :

    1992-11-01


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

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    Language :

    English




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