Download or read book Numerical Simulations of Hypervelocity Impact Experiments Involving Single Whipple Bumper Shields written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Well-controlled hypervelocity impact experiments, conducted in support of the Space Station Shielding program, were numerically modeled using two sophisticated hydrocodes, the multidimensional hydrodynamics code (CTH) and the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics code (SPH). The experiments simulated the impact of space debris on single shields and single Whipple bumper shield plate configurations. Impact velocities on the order of 10 km/s were applied to gram- sized flier lates and spherical projectiles that struck thin (