Fracture of aluminium foam core sacrificial cladding subjected to air-blast loading

International Journal of Impact Engineering

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 638-651

  Langdon, G S ^a   Karagiozova, D ^a,b   Theobald, M D ^a   Nurick, G N ^a   Lu, G ^c,d   Merrett, R P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b INSTITUTE OF MECHANICS   (Bulgaria)

^c SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^d NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Aluminium foam; Blast; Fracture; Sacrificial cladding; Structural response

Indexed keywords

AIR-BLAST; ALUMINIUM FOAM; BLAST LOADING; BLAST RESPONSE; CLADDING PANELS; CORE DENSITIES; COVER PLATE; EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATION; FINITE ELEMENT MODELLING; FINITE ELEMENT SIMULATIONS; FOAM CORE; LOWER DENSITY; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PERMANENT DEFORMATIONS; RELATIVE DENSITY; RESPONSE MECHANISMS; STRUCTURAL RESPONSE; TENSILE FRACTURES;

ALUMINUM; CLADDING (COATING); COMPUTER SIMULATION; FRACTURE; FRACTURE TESTING; UNLOADING;

PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

EID: 77149163343     PISSN: 0734743X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijimpeng.2009.07.006     Document Type: Article

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