Papers & Publications
High Speed projectile penetration in sand (with S.J. Bless, D.T. Berry, B.Pedersen, S. Satapathy, and
W. Lawhorn), 25th Int Symp Ballistics, Beijing, China, May 17-21, 2010.
Aft-body loading function for penetrators based on the spherical cavity-expansion approximation (with D.B.
Longcope and H. Duong), SAND2009-8295, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, 2009.
Comments on the Effect of Radial Inertia in the Kolsky Bar Test for an Incompressible Material (with M.J. Forrestal), accepted in Exp. Mech., 2009.
Perforation of 7075-T651 Aluminum Armor Plates with Ogive-Nose Rods and 7.62mm APM2 Bullets (with M.J. Forrestal and T. Borvik), accepted in Exp. Mech., 2009.
Perforation of 5083-H116 Aluminum Armor Plates with Ogive-Nose Rods and 7.62mm APM2 Bullets (with T. Borvik and M.J. Forrestal), accepted in Exp. Mech., 2009.
Comment on "Penetration equations for ogive-nose rods into aluminum targets" (Int J Impact Eng 2008; 35: 727-730) (with M.J. Forrestal), Int. J. Impact Engng., Vol. 36, 2009, pp. 1079.
Perforation Equations for Rigid Conical and Ogival Nose Projectiles into Aluminum Target Plates (with
M.J. Forrestal) Int. J. Impact Engng., Vol. 36, 2009, pp. 220-225.
Perforation of AA5083-H116 aluminum plates with conical-nose steel projectiles-calculations (with
T. Borvik, M.J. Forrestal, O.S. Hopperstad, and M. Langseth) Int. J. Impact Engng., Vol. 36, 2009,
pp. 426-437.
Penetration Equations for Ogive-Nose Rods into Aluminum Targets (with M.J. Forrestal), Int. J. Impact Engng., Vol. 35, 2008, pp.727-730.
A Non-Ordinary State Based Peridynamic Method to Model Solid Material Deformation and Fracture (with S.A. Silling, A. Askari, O. Weckner, M.A. Epton, and J. Xu), Int. J.Solids Structures, Vol. 36, 2009, pp. 1186-1195.
A New Semi-Empirical Penetration Method for Ogive-Nosed Projectiles Based on Acceleration Data,
SAND2006-0287, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, 2007.
Penetration of Limestone Targets by Ogive-Nosed VAR 4340 Steel Projectiles at Oblique Agles:
Experiments and Simulations (with S.J. Hanchak and K.L. Poormon), Int. J. Impact Engng., Vol. 30,
2004, pp. 1307-1331.
Penetration into Low Strength (23 Mpa) Concrete: Target Characterization and Simulations (with
A.F. Fossum and D.J. Frew), Int. J. Impact Engng., Vol. 30, 2004, pp.477-503.
Cavity Expansion: A Library for Cavity Expansion Algorithms, Version 1.0 (with K.H. Brown, J.R.
Koteras, and D.B. Longcope), SAND 2003-1048, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM,
2003.
Simulations of the Penetration of Limestone Targets by Ogive-Nose 4340 Steel Projectiles, Int. J.
Impact Engng., Vol. 27, 2002, pp. 475-496.
Penetration of 6061-T6511 Aluminum Targets by Ogive-Nosed VAR 4340 Steel Projectiles at
Oblique Angles: Experiments and Simulations (with K.L. Poormon), Int. J. Impact Engng., Vol. 25,
2001, pp. 993-1022.
Simulations of the Penetration of 6061-T6511 Aluminum Targets by Spherical-Nosed VAR 4340
Steel Projectiles (with M.R. Tabbara), Int. J. Solids Structures, Vol. 37, 2000, pp. 4419-4435.
The Effect of Strain-Rate on the Dynamic Expansion of Cylindrical Cavities, ASME J. Appl. Mech.,
Vol. 66, 1999, pp. 818-821.
Penetration of 6061-T6511 Aluminum Targets with Ogive-Nose Steel Projectiles at Striking
Velocities between 0.5 and 3.0 km/s (with A. Piekutowski, M.J. Forrestal, and K. Poormon), Int. J.
Impact Engng., Vol. 23, 1999, pp. 723-734.
Effects of Strain Hardening and Strain-Rate Sensitivity on the Penetration of Aluminum Targets with
Spherical-Nosed Rods (with M.J. Forrestal), Int. J. Solids Structures, Vol. 35, Nos. 28-29, 1998,
pp.3737-3753.
Spherical Cavity-Expansion Forcing Function in PRONTO 3D for Application to Penetration
Problems (with M.R. Tabbara), SAND97-1174, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, 1997.
Perforation of Aluminum Plates with Ogive-Nose Steel Rods at Normal and Oblique Impacts (with A.
Piekutowski, M.J. Forrestal, and K. Poormon), Int. J. Impact Engng., Vol. 18, Nos. 7-8, 1996, pp. 877-887.
A Fractal Model for the Static Coefficient of Friction at the Fiber-Matrix Interface (with D.
Krajcinovic), Composites: Part B, Vol. 27B, 1996, pp. 421-430.
On One Basic Half-plane Elasticity Solution (with V. Lubarda), Theoretical and Applied Mechanics,
Vol. 22, 1996, pp. 41-48.
Random Cantor Set Models of Elastic-Perfectly Plastic Contact of Rough Surfaces (with D. Krajcinovic),
Wear, Vol. 196, 1996, pp. 1-15.
Fractal Models of Elastic-Perfectly Plastic Contact of Rough Surfaces Based on the Cantor Set (with
D. Krajcinovic), Int. J. Solids Structures, Vol. 32, No. 19, 1995, pp. 2907-2922.
A Fractal Model for the Rigid-Perfectly Plastic Contact of Rough Surfaces (with A. Majumdar and D.
Krajcinovic), ASME J. Appl. Mech., Vol. 63, 1996, pp. 47-54.
Atomic Force Microscope Imaging of the Surface Roughness of SCS and TiB2 Coated SiC Fibers and
Uncoated Sapphire Fibers (with A. Majumdar and D. Krajcinovic), Composites, Vol. 26, 1995, pp. 619-629.
Postattack Airbase Facility Recovery (with D. Merkle, J. Howard, R. Reid, and J. Underwood), Proc.
5th Internat. Symposium on the Interaction of Conventional Munitions with protective Structures,
Mannheim FRG, April 22-26, 1991, pp. 4-10.
Expert Systems for Airbase Damage Assessment (with D. Merkle, D. Read, M. Rochefort, and J.
Underwood), The Military Engineer, Vol. 32, No. 537, 1990, pp. 38-41.
Negative Poisson’s Ratio in a Transversely Isotropic foam Structure, J. Appl. Phys., Vol. 67, No. 15,
1990, pp. 7591-7594.
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