Design of an experimental configuration for studying the dynamic fragmentation of ceramics under impact

Investigation of the multiple-fragmentation process and post-fragmentation behaviour of dense and nacre-like alumina ceramics by means of tandem impact experiments and tomographic analysis

“…In the first stage, a normal impact is performed against an aluminium-ceramic-steel sandwich configuration. The numerical design and optimisation of this configuration was studied in [14]. The different pieces of the sarcophagus device are visible in the Figure 4 (a).…”

“…The resistance of a fragmented ceramic under impact loading was investigated in the 2010s in the PhD works of Rossiquet [13] and Zinszner [10] with a new "tandem configuration" developed by Zinszner, Forquin and Rossiquet [14,15]. In this test, the ceramic is fragmented upon normal impact of a flat-end projectile, as a first step.…”