“…A summary of seminal experimental impact results and discussions of basic penetration mechanisms is given in [1,2]. These studies characterize a number of plate impact perforation mechanisms as (1) fracture due to stress waves [3][4][5][6][7], (2) radial fracture behind a stress wave [5,[8][9][10][11], (3) spallation [9,[12][13][14][15][16][17], (4) shear plugging [13,[18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25], (5) petaling [19,[26][27][28][29][30][31][32], (6) fragmentation [9,[33][34][35][36][37][38], and (7) ductile-hole enlargement [39][40][41]…”