Abstract: The main goal of the work described in this paper was to set up a procedure for modeling a thermal protection system for a hypersonic reentry vehicle by extending earlier work done by the authors. A multiphysics framework ...

Abstract: This paper reviews the topic of ballistic impact of dry woven fabric composites. It highlights previous work done in modeling the fabrics and the theory involved. Attention is also given to ...

Abstract: A review of astronaut whole body impact tolerance is discussed for land or water landings of the next generation manned space capsule named Orion. LS-DYNA simulations of Orion capsule landings are performed to produce a ...