Loosely woven fabric model with viscoelastic crimped fibres for ballistic impact simulations

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 61, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1565-1583

  Ivanov, Ivelin ^a   Tabiei, Ala ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RUSE   (Bulgaria)

^b University of Cincinnati   (United States)

Author keywords

Ballistic impact simulations; Computational micro mechanical material model; Flexible woven fabric; Non linear explicit finite element analysis

Indexed keywords

BALLISTICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRICTION; STRAIN; STRESSES; VISCOELASTICITY;

BALLISTIC IMPACT SIMULATIONS; CRIMPING; TRELLIZING;

FIBERS;

FABRIC; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; VISCOELASTICITY;

EID: 7644242271     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.1113     Document Type: Article

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