Experimental study of the out-of-plane dynamic compression of hexagonal honeycombs

Composite Structures

Volumn 94, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 2326-2336

  Xu, Shanqing ^a,b   Beynon, John H ^a   Ruan, Dong ^a   Lu, Guoxing ^c  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b EAST CHINA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Aluminium hexagonal honeycombs; Deformation pattern; Dynamic; Out of plane compression; Strain rate effect

Indexed keywords

BULK PROPERTIES; DEFORMATION PATTERN; DYNAMIC COMPRESSION; DYNAMIC LOADING CONDITIONS; EDGE LENGTH; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; HEXAGONAL HONEYCOMB; HONEYCOMB CELLS; OUT-OF-PLANE; OUT-OF-PLANE COMPRESSION; PLATEAU STRESS; QUASI-STATIC; RELATIVE DENSITY; SEMIEMPIRICAL RELATIONS; SPECIMEN DIMENSION; STRAIN RATE EFFECT; STRENGTH ENHANCEMENT; TANGENT MODULI; WALL THICKNESS;

ALUMINUM; CRUSHING; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); DYNAMIC LOADS; DYNAMICS; LOADING; STRAIN RATE;

HONEYCOMB STRUCTURES;

EID: 84860836946     PISSN: 02638223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compstruct.2012.02.024     Document Type: Article

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