Designing the energy absorption capacity of functionally graded foam materials

Materials Science and Engineering: A

Volumn 507, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 215-225

  Cui, Liang ^a   Kiernan, Stephen ^a   Gilchrist, Michael D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Constitutive model; Energy absorption; Functionally graded foam; Impact test

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FUNCTIONALLY GRADED MATERIALS;

ABSORPTION CHARACTERISTICS; DENSITY DIFFERENCE; ENERGY ABSORPTION ABILITY; ENERGY ABSORPTION CAPACITY; FOAM MATERIAL; FUNCTIONALLY GRADED; FUNCTIONALLY GRADED FOAM; GRADIENT FUNCTION; IMPACT TEST; PERFORMANCE;

ENERGY ABSORPTION;

EID: 61649111727     PISSN: 09215093     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.msea.2008.12.011     Document Type: Article

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