“…The former is able to simulate more realistically the physical characteristics of the phenomenon but requires far more computational resources. In terminal ballistics, the Johnson–Cook model [ 25 ] is the most popular constitutive relation used to predict the mechanical behavior of metals under high-velocity impact [ 1 , 4 , 5 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 18 , 19 , 20 , 21 , 22 , 23 , 24 , 26 , 27 ]. This constitutive relation takes into account the effect of plastic strain hardening, strain rate hardening and thermal softening.…”