A computational framework for modelling impact induced damage in ceramic and ceramic-metal composite structures

When ceramic or ceramic-metal composite structures are subjected to impact loading, they undergo various deformation phases such as plastic yielding, pulverization, fragmentation, tensile spalling, interface debonding, penetration etc. In order to study these phenomenological characteristics and produce insightful observation, numerical simulation is inevitable. Apart from reasonably accurate constitutive model, a numerical scheme must also...