title: Investigations of impact biomechanics for penetrating ballistic cases.
abstract: This study aims to investigate the penetration of a projectile into a surrogate human tissue numerically, using Finite Element (FE) simulation. 20% Balistic Gelatin material (BG) is simulated with an elasto-plastic hydrodynamic constitutive law, and then impacted by steel spheres at different velocities. The results from the FE simulations are compared with existing experimental data and other analytical equations from the literature. To our knowledge, this is the first study to investigate a projectile penetration by numerical simulation, and then compare the results with analytical and experimental data from previous studies. This developed model gives encouraging results for further investigations of penetrating impact of projectile in the human body.
authors.affiliation: University of Technology of Belfort-Montbéliard, IRTES-M3M Laboratory, 90 010 Belfort, France.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Awoukeng-Goumtcha
authors.affiliation: University of Technology of Belfort-Montbéliard, IRTES-M3M Laboratory, 90 010 Belfort, France.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Taddei
authors.affiliation: University of Technology of Belfort-Montbéliard, IRTES-M3M Laboratory, 90 010 Belfort, France.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Tostain
authors.affiliation: University of Technology of Belfort-Montbéliard, IRTES-M3M Laboratory, 90 010 Belfort, France.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Roth
mesh_terms: D019245:Compressive Strength; D003198:Computer Simulation; D055119:Elastic Modulus; D004735:Energy Transfer; D020342:Finite Element Analysis; D044709:Forensic Ballistics / Q000379:methods*; D017276:Friction; D006801:Humans; D057446:Hydrodynamics; D008954:Models, Biological; D011312:Pressure; D014783:Viscosity; D014948:Wounds, Gunshot / Q000503:physiopathology*
keywords: Penetrating impact; ballistic; biomechanics; finite element analysis; human surrogate