Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) are measuring precisely the disintegration of "frangible" bullets when they strike a surface to better understand how the ...
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Strain waves traveling at 5,000 meters per second in the NIST Kolsky bar apparatus compress a test slice from a frangible bullet to measure the precise amount of stress needed to break it apart.