A fresh look at crater scaling laws for normal and oblique hypervelocity impacts

Details A fresh look at crater scaling laws for normal and oblique hypervelocity impacts A fresh look at crater scaling laws for normal and oblique hypervelocity impacts

Mar 1993

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993lpi....24.1497w&link_type=abstract

In Lunar and Planetary Inst., Twenty-Fourth Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. Part 3: N-Z p 1497-1498 (SEE N94-20636 05-91

Physics

Cratering, Impact Tests, Impact Tolerances, Meteoritic Damage, Micrometeoroids, Midair Collisions, Perforating, Scaling Laws, Space Debris, Aluminum, Artificial Satellites, Destructive Tests, Long Duration Exposure Facility, Mathematical Models, Teflon (Trademark)

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With the concomitant increase in the amount of man-made debris and an ever increasing use of space satellites, the issue of accidental collisions with particles becomes more severe. While the natural micrometeoroid population is unavoidable and assumed constant, continued launches increase the debris population at a steady rate. Debris currently includes items ranging in size from microns to meters which originated from spent satellites and rocket cases. To understand and model these environments, impact damage in the form of craters and perforations must be analyzed. Returned spacecraft materials such as those from LDEF and Solar Max have provided such a testbed. From these space-aged samples various impact parameters (i.e., particle size, particle and target material, particle shape, relative impact speed, etc.) may be determined. These types of analyses require the use of generic analytic scaling laws which can adequately describe the impact effects. Currently, most existing analytic scaling laws are little more than curve-fits to limited data and are not based on physics, and thus are not generically applicable over a wide range of impact parameters. During this study, a series of physics-based scaling laws for normal and oblique crater and perforation formation has been generated into two types of materials: aluminum and Teflon.

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