Dynamic properties of density graded thin-walled metal hollow sphere arrays

Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 478-488

  Liu, Ying ^a,b   Wu, He Xiang ^a   Lu, Guoxing ^c   Wang, Bin ^b  

^a BEIJING JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

density gradient; energy absorption; explicit FEM; gradient profile; impact; metal hollow sphere arrays

Indexed keywords

DENSITY GRADIENTS; EXPLICIT FEM; GRADIENT PROFILE; HOLLOW SPHERE; IMPACT;

DYNAMIC RESPONSE; ENERGY ABSORPTION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

SPHERES;

EID: 84876138728     PISSN: 15376494     EISSN: 15376532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15376494.2011.627642     Document Type: Article

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