Gradient design of metal hollow sphere (MHS) foams with density gradients

Composites Part B: Engineering

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1346-1352

  Liu, Ying ^a   Wu, He Xiang ^a   Wang, Bin ^b  

^a BEIJING JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

A: Foams; B: Dynamic behavior; C: Numerical analysis

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION PROPERTY; DENSITY GRADIENTS; DYNAMIC CRUSHING; DYNAMIC PERFORMANCE; EXPLICIT FINITE ELEMENTS; HOLLOW SPHERE; SEMIEMPIRICAL MODELS; WALL THICKNESS;

DYNAMIC RESPONSE; ENERGY ABSORPTION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; SPHERES;

DESIGN;

EID: 84858154734     PISSN: 13598368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compositesb.2011.11.057     Document Type: Article

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