The Impact Physics group solves complex impact problems and has been conducting research and development for impact-resistant systems for government and industrial sponsors since 1965.
We have the most diversified indoor impact research facility in the world. Our 13 gun ranges are capable of propelling objects at velocities ranging from tens of feet per second to over 24,000 feet per second.
We routinely perform testing in the fields of foreign object damage (FOD), light armor design and evaluation, penetration mechanics, hypervelocity impact testing and analysis, and dynamic behavior of materials.
Capabilities
The breadth of topics studied by the UDRI Impact Physics group include:
Terminal Ballistics
Advanced armor development
Aircraft component survivability
Birdstrike testing
Foreign object damage
Fragment containment testing
Lightweight armor
Low-velocity impact damage
Military standard testing
Penetration mechanics
Penetrator evaluation
Structural response to impact
Hypervelocity Impact
Debris cloud formation
KE penetrators
Spacecraft shielding
Ballistic Test Design
Armor and penetrator design
Flash radiography
Foreign object simulators
High speed photography
Sabot development
High-Strain-Rate Material Behavior
Constitutive modeling
Failure criteria
Hopkinson bar tests
Material properties characterization
Shock wave propagation
Impact Shock Testing
Data recorders
Electronic components