Simulation of the response of fibre-metal laminates to localised blast loading

International Journal of Impact Engineering

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 766-782

  Karagiozova, D ^a,b   Langdon, G S ^a   Nurick, G N ^a   Chung Kim Yuen, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b INSTITUTE OF MECHANICS   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Composite panel; Debonding; Fibre metal laminate; Localised blast loading; Monolithic plate

Indexed keywords

BLAST LOADING; COMPOSITE PANEL; COMPOSITE PANELS; FIBRE METAL LAMINATES; MONOLITHIC PLATES;

ALUMINUM; ALUMINUM ALLOYS; DEBONDING; DEFORMATION; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBERS; LOADING; METAL ANALYSIS; METALS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PLATE METAL; QUALITY ASSURANCE; REINFORCED PLASTICS; SAFETY FACTOR; SANDWICH STRUCTURES;

LAMINATES;

EID: 77149173450     PISSN: 0734743X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijimpeng.2009.04.001     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Zhu F., and Lu G. A review of blast and impact of metallic and sandwich structures. Electronic Journal of Structural Engineering, Special Issue: Loading on Structures (2007) 92-101
2. Chung Kim Yuen S, Nurick GN, Theobald MD, Langdon GS. Sandwich panels subjected to blast loading. In: Shukla A, Ravichandran G, Rajapakse Y, editors. Dynamic failure of materials and structures. Springer, 2009 [chapter 9], ISBN: 978-1-4419-0445-4, doi: 10.1007/978-1-4419-0446-1_9.
3. Vlot A. Impact loading on fibre metal laminates. International Journal of Impact Engineering 18 (1996) 291-307
4. Vogelesang L.B., and Vlot A. Development of fibre metal laminates for advanced aerospace structures. Journal of Materials Processing Technology 103 (2000) 1-5
5. Fatt H.M.S., Lin C., Revilock Jr. D.M., and Hopkins D.A. Ballistic impact of GLARETM fibre metal laminates. Composite Structures 61 (2003) 73-88
6. Reyes G., and Cantwell W.J. The high velocity impact response of composite and FML-reinforced sandwich structures. Composite Science and Technology 64 (2004) 35-54
7. Hanssen A.G., Enstock L., and Langseth M. Close-range blast loading of aluminium foam panels. International Journal of Impact Engineering 27 (2002) 593-618
8. Tan P.J., Reid S.R., Harrigan J.J., Zou Z., and Li S. Dynamic compressive strength properties of aluminium foams. Part II - 'shock' theory and comparison with experimental data and numerical models. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 53 (2005) 2206-2230
9. Rathbun H.J., Radford D.D., Xue Z., He M.Y., Yang J., Deshpande V., et al. Performance of metallic honeycomb-core sandwich beams under shock loading. International Journal of Solids and Structures 43 6 (2006) 1746-1763
10. Johnson A.F., and Holzapfel M. Influence of delamination on impact damage in composite structures. Composites Science and Technology 66 (2006) 807-815
11. Vaziri A., and Hutchinson J.W. Metal sandwich plates subject to intense air shocks. International Journal of Solids and Structures 44 (2007) 2021-2035
12. Reyes G., and Cantwell W.J. The mechanical properties of fibre-metal laminates based on glass fibre-reinforced polypropylene. Composite Science and Technology 60 (2000) 1085-1094
13. Langdon G.S., Lemanski S.L., Nurick G.N., Simmons M.S., Cantwell W.J., and Schleyer G.K. Behaviour of fibre-metal laminates subjected to localised blast loading: part I - experimental observations and failure analysis. International Journal of Impact Engineering 34 (2007) 1202-1222
14. Lemanski S.L., Nurick G.N., Langdon G.S., Simmons M.S., Cantwell W.J., and Schleyer G.K. Behaviour of fibre-metal laminates subjected to localised blast loading: part II - quantitative analysis. International Journal of Impact Engineering 34 (2007) 1223-1245
15. Langdon G.S., Nuric G.N., Lemanski S.L., Simmons M.S., Cantwell W.J., and Schleyer G.K. Failure characterisation of blast-loaded fibre-metal laminate panels based on aluminium and glass-fibre reinforced polypropylene. Composite Science and Technology 67 (2007) 1385-1405
16. Langdon GS, Nurick GN, Karagiozova D, Cantwell WJ. Fibre-metal laminates subjected to blast loading. In: Shukla A, Ravichandran G, Rajapakse Y, editors. Dynamic failure of materials and structures. Springer, 2009 [chapter 10], ISBN: 978-1-4419-0445-4, doi: 10.1007/978-1-4419-0446-1_10.
17. McCarthy M.A., Xiao J.R., Petrinic N., Komoulakos A., and Melito V. Modelling of bird strike on an aircraft wing leading edge made from fibre metal laminates - part 1: material modelling. Applied Composite Materials 11 (2004) 295-315
18. Bonorchis D, Nurick GN. The influence of boundary conditions on the loading of rectangular plates subjected to localised blast loading - importance in numerical simulations. International Journal of Impact Engineering. 2009;36:40-52.
19. Espinosa H.D., Dwivedi S., and Lu H.-C. Modeling impact induced delamination of woven fiber reinforced composites with contact/cohesive laws. Computational Methods in Applied Mechanics Engineering 183 (2000) 259-290
20. Point N., and Sacco E. A delamination model for laminated composites. International Journal of Solids and Structures 33 4 (1996) 483-509
21. Tenchev R.T., and Falzon B.G. A pseudo-transient solution strategy for the analysis of delamination by means of interface elements. Finite Elements in Analysis and Design 42 (2006) 698-708
22. Villanueva GR. Processing and characterisation of the mechanical properties of novel fibre-metal laminates. Ph.D. thesis, The University of Liverpool; 2001.
23. Ho{combining double acute accent}le J., and Librescu L. Recent results on the effect of the transverse core compressibility on the static and dynamic response of sandwich structures. Composites Part B: Engineering 38 (2008) 108-119
24. Shiming Zhuang S., Ravichandran G., and Grady D.G. An experimental investigation of shock wave propagation in periodically layered composites. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 51 (2003) 245-265
25. Nurick G.N., and Radford A.M. Development and tearing of clamped circular plates subjected to localised central blast loads. In: Reddy B.D. (Ed). Recent developments in computational and applied mechanics (1997), Int. Center for Num. Meth in Eng. (CINME Barcelona, Spain) 276-301
26. Mukai T., Miyoshi T., Nakano S., Somekawa H., and Higashi K. Compressive response of a closed-cell aluminium foam at high strain rate. Scripta Materialia 54 (2006) 533-537