A blast-tolerant sandwich plate design with a polyurea interlayer

International Journal of Solids and Structures

Volumn 43, Issue 25-26, 2006, Pages 7644-7658

  Bahei El Din, Yehia A ^a   Dvorak, George J ^a   Fredricksen, Olivia J ^a  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Blast load; Finite elements; Interlayers; Polyurea; Sandwich plates

Indexed keywords

CRUSHING; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FOAMS; KINETIC ENERGY; LAMINATES; SHOCK ABSORBERS;

BLAST LOADS; INTERLAYERS; POLYUREA; SANDWICH PLATES;

SANDWICH STRUCTURES;

EID: 33750368497     PISSN: 00207683     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2006.03.021     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. Brode H.L. Numerical solution of spherical blast waves. Journal of Applied Physics 26 6 (1955) 766-775
2. Clifton, R., Jiao, T., 2004. High strain response of elastomers. In: Proceedings of ONR, ERC, ACTD Workshop, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 2004.
3. Dvorak G.J., and Bahei-El-Din Y.A. Enhancement of blast resistance of sandwich plates. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Sandwich Structures, 29-31 August 2005 (2005), Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark
4. Dvorak, G.J., Suvorov, A.P., 2006. Protection of sandwich plates from low-velocity impact. Journal of Composite Materials (in press).
5. Fleck N.A. Collapse mechanisms of sandwich beams with composite faces and foam core, loaded in three-point bending. Part II: experimental investigation and numerical modeling. International Journal of Mechanical Sciences 46 (2004) 585-608
6. Fleck N.A., and Deshpande V.S. The resistance of clamped sandwich beams to shock loading. ASME Journal of Applied Mechanics 71 (2004) 386-401
7. Florence A.L. Clamped circular rigid-plastic plates under blast loading. ASME Journal of Applied Mechanics 33 (1966) 256-260
8. Gantes C.J., and Pnevmatikos N.G. Elastic-plastic response spectra for exponential blast loading. International Journal of Impact Engineering 30 (2004) 323-343
9. Jones N. A theoretical study of the dynamic plastic behaviour of beams and plates with finite deflections. International Journal of Solids and Structures 7 (1971) 1007-1029
10. Jones N. Structural Impact (1989), Cambridge University Press
11. Low H.Y., and Hao H. Reliability analysis of reinforced concrete slabs under explosive loading. Structural Safety 23 (2001) 157-178
12. LSTC. LS-Dyna 970 (2003), Livermore Software Technology Corporation, Livermore, CA
13. Nemat-Nasser, S., 2004. Experimental characterization of polyurea with constitutive modeling and simulation. In: Proceedings of ONR, ERC, ACTD Workshop, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 2004.
14. Qui X., Deshpande V.S., and Fleck N.A. Finite element analysis of the dynamic response of clamped sandwich beams subjected to shock loading. European Journal of Mechanics A/Solids 22 (2003) 801-814
15. Sun, C.T., Wu, C.L., 1991. Low velocity impact of composite sandwich panels. In: Proceedings of 32nd AIAA/ASME/ASCE Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference, pp. 1123-1129.
16. Suvorov A.P., and Dvorak G.J. Enhancement of low-velocity impact resistance of sandwich plates. International Journal of Solids and Structures 42 (2005) 2323-2344
17. Suvorov A.P., and Dvorak G.J. Dynamic response of sandwich plates to medium-velocity impact. Journal of Sandwich Structures and Materials 7 5 (2005) 395-412
18. Symonds P.S., and Wierzbicki T. Membrane mode solutions for impulsively loaded circular plates. ASME Journal of Applied Mechanics 46 (1979) 58-64
19. Taylor G.I. The pressure and impulse of submarine explosion waves on plates. The Scientific Papers of G.I. Taylor vol. III (1963), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK pp. 287-303
20. Wang A.J., and Hopkins H.G. On the plastic deformation of built-in circular plates under impulsive load. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 3 (1954) 22-37
21. Xue Z., and Hutchinson J.W. Preliminary assessment of sandwich plates subject to blast loads. International Journal of Mechanical Sciences 45 (2003) 687-705
22. Xue Z., and Hutchinson J.W. A comparative study of impulse-resistant metal sandwich plates. International Journal of Impact Engineering 30 (2004) 1283-1305
23. Yi, J., Boyce, M.C., 2004. Stress-strain behavior of polyurea and polyurethane: preliminary experiments and modeling results. In: Proceedings of ONR, ERC, ACTD Workshop, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 2004.