Underbody Blast Design Challenge

Summary: Team Defender’s mission is to design the next generation of underbody armor plates for heavy fighting vehicles. The project aims to protect the solider while simultaneously reducing the cost of vehicle replacement and maintenance through the addition of a 3D printed Titanium 6A14V plate. The design was developed using SolidWorks and analyzed using LS-DYNA on the DoD High Performance Computing Network. The goal of the design was to optimize areal density, deflection, and thickness relative to a monolithic plate. The final scaled design was printed and tested at the Army Research Labs in Aberdeen, Maryland using 3D additive manufacturing and a simulated overburden blast.

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