Characterization of impact in composite plates

Composite Structures

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 15-24

  Christoforou, Andreas P ^a   Yigit, Ahmet S ^a  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE MATERIALS; COMPOSITE STRUCTURES; IMPACT RESISTANCE; LOADS (FORCES); PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

COMPOSITE PLATES; IMPACT RESPONSE;

LAMINATED COMPOSITES;

EID: 0032155051     PISSN: 02638223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0263-8223(98)00087-7     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. [1] Cantwell WJ, Morton J. The impact resistance of composite materials - a review. Composites 1991;22:347-61.
2. [2] Abrate S. Impact on laminated composites: recent advances. Appl Mech Rev 1994;47:517-44.
3. [3] Bucinell RB, Nuismer RJ, Koury JL. Response of composite plates to quasi-static impact events. In: Composite materials: fatigue and fracture, vol. 3. ASTM STP 1110, 1991:528-49.
4. [4] Swanson SR. Limits of quasi-static solutions in impact of composite structures. Comp Engng 1992;2:261-7.
5. [5] Yigit AS, Christoforou AP. Impact dynamics of composite beams. Comp Struc 1995;32:187-95.
6. [6] Olsson R. Impact response of orthotropic composite plates predicted from a one-parameter differential equation. AIAA J 1992;30:1587-96.
7. [7] Sankar BV. Scaling of low-velocity impact for symmetric composite laminates. J Reinf Plast Comp 1992;11:296-309.
8. [8] Dobyns AL. Analysis of simply-supported orthotropic plates subject to static and dynamic loads. AIAA J 1981;19:642-50.
9. [9] Tan TM, Sun CT. Use of statical indentation laws in the impact analysis of laminated composite plates. J Appl Mech 1985;52:6-12.
10. [10] Yigit AS, Christoforou AP. On the impact of a spherical indenter and an elastic-plastic transversely isotropic half-space. Comp Engng 1994;4:1143-52.
11. [11] Christoforou AP, Swanson SR. Analysis of impact response in composite plates. Int J Solids Struc 1991;27:161-70.
12. [12] Byrne GD, Hindmarsh AC. A polyalgorithm for the numerical solution of ordinary differential equations. ACM Trans Math Software 1975;1:71-6.
13. [13] Sun CT, Chen JK. On the impact of initially stressed composite laminates. J Comp Mater 1985;19:490-504.
14. [14] Meirovitch L. Analytical methods in vibrations. New York: Macmillan, 1967.
15. [15] Goldsmith W. Impact. London: Edward Arnold, 1960.
16. [16] Doyle FJ. Wave propagation in structures: an FFT-based spectral analysis methodology. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1989.
17. [17] Jackson WC, Poe CC Jr. The use of impact force as a scale parameter for the impact response of composite laminates. J Comp Technol Res 1993;15:282-9.
18. [18] Prasad CB, Ambur DR, Starnes JH Jr. Response of laminated composite plates to low-speed impact by different impactors. AIAA J 1994;32:1270-7.
19. [19] Doyle JF. Experimentally determining the contact force during the transverse impact of an orthotropic plate. J Sound Vibr 1987;118: 441-8.
20. [20] Wu E, Tsai TD, Yen CS, Two methods for determining impact-force history on elastic plates. Exp Mech 1995;35: 11-18.
21. [21] Pierson MO, Vaziri R. Analytical solution for low-velocity impact response of composite plates. AIAA J 1996;34: 1633-40.