Behaviour of luffa sponge material under dynamic loading

International Journal of Impact Engineering

Volumn 57, Issue , 2013, Pages 17-26

  Shen, Jianhu ^a   Xie, Yi Min ^a   Huang, Xiaodong ^a   Zhou, Shiwei ^a   Ruan, Dong ^b  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biological material; Energy absorption; Luffa sponge; Strain rate; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR MATERIAL; COMPARISON STUDY; COMPRESSIVE TESTS; DENSIFICATION STRAIN; DENSITY RANGE; DYNAMIC DATA; DYNAMIC LOADINGS; EMPIRICAL FORMULAS; ENERGY ABSORPTION CAPACITY; ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS; IMPACT ENERGY ABSORPTION; IRREGULAR SHAPE; LIGHT WEIGHT; LUFFA SPONGE; MACROSCOPIC STRENGTH; MATERIAL PROPERTY; NATURAL MATERIALS; PER UNIT; PHOTOGRAPHIC TECHNIQUES; PLATEAU STRESS; QUASI-STATIC EXPERIMENTS; SECTIONAL AREAS; SPECIFIC ENERGY ABSORPTION; STRAIN RATE EFFECT; SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS; UNDERLYING MECHANISM; VIBRATION ISOLATIONS;

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; DYNAMIC LOADS; ENERGY ABSORPTION; STRESS-STRAIN CURVES; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

STRAIN RATE;

EID: 84874684740     PISSN: 0734743X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijimpeng.2013.01.004     Document Type: Article

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