Impact of woven fabric: Experiments and mesostructure-based continuum-level simulations

Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids

Volumn 58, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1995-2021

  Parsons, Ethan M ^a   Weerasooriya, Tusit ^b   Sarva, Sai ^c   Socrate, Simona ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Constitutive behavior; Dynamics; Finite elements; Impact testing; Woven fabric

Indexed keywords

BALLISTIC IMPACT; COMMERCIAL SYSTEMS; COMPLEX STRUCTURE; COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; CONSTITUTIVE BEHAVIORS; CONSTITUTIVE RELATIONS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM; DEPLOYABLE STRUCTURE; FINITE ELEMENT; HIGH RATE; MESOSTRUCTURES; MODELING TECHNIQUE; NEW APPLICATIONS; NODAL FORCE; PROJECTILE VELOCITY; PROTECTIVE ARMORS; REINFORCEMENT PHASE; RESTRAINT SYSTEMS; SINGLE LAYER; STRUCTURAL APPLICATIONS; UNIT CELLS; WOVEN FABRICS;

DEFORMATION; EXPERIMENTS; FABRICS; IMPACT TESTING; WOOL; YARN;

WEAVING;

EID: 77957751309     PISSN: 00225096     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmps.2010.05.006     Document Type: Article

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