Modeling the progressive collapse behavior of metal foams

International Journal of Impact Engineering

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 587-595

  Lopatnikov, Sergey L ^a   Gama, Bazle A ^a   Gillespie Jr , John W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Energy absorption; Metal foam filled metal tubes; Modeling; Progressive collapse

Indexed keywords

COMPACTION; DENSIFICATION; ELASTIC MODULI; ENERGY ABSORPTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLASTIC DEFORMATION; STRESS ANALYSIS;

ELASTIC-PLASTIC-RIGID (E-P-R) FOAM; METAL FOAM-FILLED METAL TUBES; PROGRESSIVE COLLAPSE;

FOAMS;

EID: 33751006452     PISSN: 0734743X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijimpeng.2005.12.004     Document Type: Article

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