Ballistic impact experiments of metallic sandwich panels with aluminium foam core

International Journal of Impact Engineering

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1045-1055

  Hou, Weihong ^a   Zhu, Feng ^a,d   Lu, Guoxing ^a,b   Fang, Dai Ning ^c  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d Wayne State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Aluminium foam; Dynamic effect; Energy absorption; Perforation; Sandwich panel

Indexed keywords

ALUMINIUM FOAM; BALLISTIC IMPACT; BALLISTIC LIMIT; BALLISTIC PERFORMANCE; ENERGY ABSORBERS; FOAM CORE; IMPACT PROTECTION; IMPACT VELOCITIES; KEY PARAMETERS; QUASI-STATIC; SANDWICH PANEL; SKIN THICKNESS;

ABSORPTION; BALLISTICS; ENERGY ABSORPTION; EXPERIMENTS; HONEYCOMB STRUCTURES; SANDWICH STRUCTURES;

ALUMINUM;

EID: 77955276751     PISSN: 0734743X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijimpeng.2010.03.006     Document Type: Article

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