Stream 3A: Armour Units

Moderator: Leopoldo Franco, Modimar, Italy

Question – anonymous: Those units, I guess like any square face, can be packed very nice and tightly in a straight section 2D, but as you go around the roundhead, obviously, you need to leave some space. Did you find something in the tests? Did you have something planned to have special units, special shapes to cope with the curvature?

Answer – Peter Simpson: We didn’t go with special units, but we did have quite tight placing tolerances for the size of the gap we allowed. In the plan arrangement we tried to keep the curves fairly gentle to try and minimise the size of the gaps between the adjacent units.