چکیده :
Experimental data are now widely available for the size of craters resulting from hypervelocity impacts of millimetre scale projectiles
onto water ice targets. At such size scales the bowl shaped crater formed in ductile materials, or in larger scale impacts, is here surrounded
by a large spallation zone due to the brittle nature of the ice. Modelling of these impacts therefore has to take account of this
spallation. Here we used the iSALE2 hydrocode to simulate such impacts and compared the results to experimental data. We found that
it was possible to reproduce the experimental data over a range of speeds (1–7 km s1) for aluminium and copper projectiles. Initially, to
reproduce the large spallation regions around the craters it was assumed that above a certain degree of damage, material was removed by
spallation. However this simple one-parameter model failed to model the crater depth adequately. Accordingly, to obtain the best agreement
of the simulations with the experimental data, a two-step ice strength was introduced, whereby above a critical amount of damage
(0.95), the yield strength reduced from 1 MPa (intact) to 70 kPa (damaged). As a result, experimental data for crater depth and diameter
and the results of the simulations agree to within 6% for diameter and 5% for depth over the impact energy range used in the experiments
(1–240 J).
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