Impact testing and simulation of a polypropylene component. Correlation with strain rate sensitive constitutive models in ANSYS and LS-DYNA.

Polymer Testing

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 170-180

  Arriaga, Aitor ^a   Pagaldai, Rikardo ^a   Zaldua, Ane Miren ^a   Chrysostomou, Alicia ^b   O'Brien, Michael ^b  

^a Lea Artibai Ikastetxea ^*  (Spain)

^b LONDON METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ANSYS; Impact; LS DYNA; Simulation; Strain rate; Thermoplastic

Indexed keywords

ANSYS; CONTACT STIFFNESS; ELASTO-PLASTIC; ELEMENT TYPE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS PROGRAM; FORCE LEVEL; FORCE-DISPLACEMENT CURVES; IMPACT; IMPACT TEST; LS-DYNA; LS-DYNA SIMULATION; MATERIAL MODELS; MESH DENSITY; PERZYNA; POLYPROPYLENE HOMOPOLYMER; QUASI-STATIC TENSILE TEST; RATE DEPENDENCY; STRAIN LOCALISATION; TENSILE TESTS; TEST RESULTS; TIME CURVES; TRUE STRESS-STRAIN; VISCOPLASTIC;

CONSTITUTIVE MODELS; FILLED POLYMERS; IMPACT TESTING; POLYPROPYLENES; REINFORCED PLASTICS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SILICATE MINERALS; STRESS-STRAIN CURVES; TENSILE TESTING; THERMOPLASTICS; YIELD STRESS;

STRAIN RATE;

EID: 75949091629     PISSN: 01429418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.polymertesting.2009.10.007     Document Type: Article

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