Metal sandwich plates subject to intense air shocks

Recent results on fluid–structure interaction for plates subject to high intensity air shocks are employed to assess the performance of all-metal sandwich plates compared to monolithic solid plates of the same material and mass per area. For a planar shock wave striking the plate, the new results enable the structural analysis to be decoupled from an analysis of shock propagation in the air. The study complements prior work on the role of fluid–structure interaction in the design and assessment of sandwich plates subject to water shocks. Square honeycomb and folded plate core topologies are considered. Fluid–structure interaction enhances the performance of sandwich plates relative to solid plates under intense air shocks, but not as significantly as for water blasts. The paper investigates two methods for applying the loading to the sandwich plate—responses are contrasted for loads applied as a time-dependent pressure history versus imposition of an initial velocity.     

Strength optimization of metallic sandwich panels subject to bending

A general methodology for the design of strong, lightweight sandwich panels is described and implemented. Several core topologies are considered, including square-section truss members in pyramidal and tetrahedral configurations, square honeycombs, and corrugated sheets. When the number of independent design parameters is restricted to three, closed-form analytical solutions for the optimal design are obtained. Alternatively, when a fourth parameter is added (as needed to fully characterize the panel geometry), numerical routes are required. The results demonstrate that the three parameter optimizations yield design weights that are only slightly heavier than those of the fully optimized panels, provided the value of the fourth parameter is selected judiciously. The weight rankings of the various core topologies change with load capacity, although the differences between them are generally small, particularly upon comparison with the weight of a solid panel.     

Buckling of composite panels subjected to biaxial loading

Buckling loads and modes of flat composite laminates were measured and compared with theory. Laminates were subjected to simply supported boundary conditions and biaxial loading. Displacements were measured both mechanically using dial gages and optically using shadow moiré. Predictions were obtained numerically using the Galerkin method. Buckling loads were measured during 49 tests. Overall, measurements confirmed expected trends. Buckling loads increased with an increase in transverse tensile loading as predicted. Measured buckling modes were also well predicted, including an observed increase in mode number with an increase in transverse tensile loading. Measured buckling loads were not as well predicted, and substantial error was encountered during individual tests. Discrepancies between measurement and prediction are reported in terms of the percentage error in prediction. The average and standard deviation in percentage error for 49 measurements was 1.6 percent ±15.4 percent. These discrepancies are thought to be due to specimen imperfections, difficulties in simulating truly simply supported boundary conditions and/or nonuniform loading of the composite panels.     

Delamination in sandwich panels due to local water slamming loads

We study delamination in a sandwich panel due to transient finite plane strain elastic deformations caused by local water slamming loads and use the boundary element method to analyze motion of water and the finite element method to determine deformations of the panel. The cohesive zone model is used to study delamination initiation and propagation. The fluid is assumed to be incompressible and inviscid, and undergo irrotational motion. A layer-wise third order shear and normal deformable plate/shell theory is employed to simulate deformations of the panel by considering all geometric nonlinearities (i.e., all non-linear terms in strain–displacement relations) and taking the panel material to be St. Venant–Kirchhoff (i.e., the second Piola–Kirchhoff stress tensor is a linear function of the Green–St. Venant strain tensor). The Rayleigh damping is introduced to account for structural damping that reduces oscillations in the pressure acting on the panel/water interface. Results have been computed for water entry of (i) straight and circular sandwich panels made of Hookean materials with and without consideration of delamination failure, and (ii) flat sandwich panels made of the St. Venant–Kirchhoff materials. The face sheets and the core of sandwich panels are made, respectively, of fiber reinforced composites and soft materials. It is found that for the same entry speed (i) the peak pressure for a curved panel is less than that for a straight panel, (ii) the consideration of geometric nonlinearities significantly increases the peak hydrodynamic pressure, (iii) delamination occurs in mode-II, and (iv) the delamination reduces the hydroelastic pressure acting on the panel surface and hence alters deformations of the panel.     

Design of metallic textile core sandwich panels

Metallic sandwich panels with textile cores have been analyzed subject to combined bending and shear and then designed for minimum weight. Basic results for the weight benefits relative to solid plates are presented, with emphasis on restricted optimizations that assure robustness (non-catastrophic failure) and acceptable thinness. Select numerical simulations are used to check the analytical results and to explore the role of strain hardening beyond failure initiation. Comparisons are made with competing concepts, especially honeycomb and truss core systems. It is demonstrated that all three systems have essentially equivalent performance. The influence on the design of a concentrated compressive stress that might crush the core has been explored and found to produce relatively small effect over the stress range of practical interest. “Angle ply” cores with members in the ±45° orientation are found to be near optimal for all combinations of bending, shear and compression.     

Failure mechanisms in composite panels subjected to underwater impulsive loads

This work examines the performance of composite panels when subjected to underwater impulsive loads. The scaled fluid-structure experimental methodology developed by Espinosa and co-workers was employed. Failure modes, damage mechanisms and their distributions were identified and quantified for composite monolithic and sandwich panels subjected to typical blast loadings. The temporal evolutions of panel deflection and center deflection histories were obtained from shadow Moiré fringes acquired in real time by means of high speed photography. A linear relationship of zero intercept between peak center deflections versus applied impulse per areal mass was obtained for composite monolithic panels. For composite sandwich panels, the relationship between maximum center deflection versus applied impulse per areal mass was found to be approximately bilinear but with a higher slope. Performance improvement of sandwich versus monolithic composite panels was, therefore, established specially at sufficiently high impulses per areal mass (I₀/M¯>170 m s⁻¹). Severe failure was observed in solid panels subjected to impulses per areal mass larger than 300 m s⁻¹. Extensive fiber fracture occurred in the center of the panels, where cracks formed a cross pattern through the plate thickness and delamination was very extensive on the sample edges due to bending effects. Similar levels of damage were observed in sandwich panels but at much higher impulses per areal mass. The experimental work reported in this paper encompasses not only characterization of the dynamic performance of monolithic and sandwich panels but also post-mortem characterization by means of both non-destructive and microscopy techniques. The spatial distribution of delamination and matrix cracking were quantified, as a function of applied impulse, in both monolithic and sandwich panels. The extent of core crushing was also quantified in the case of sandwich panels. The quantified variables represent ideal metrics against which model predictive capabilities can be assessed.     

夹芯圆柱壳在水下爆炸载荷作用下的抗冲击特性

采用声固耦合方法对夹芯圆柱壳和等质量的普通圆柱壳在爆炸载荷作用下的应变、速度和加速度进行有限元计算。结果表明:夹芯防护层对爆炸冲击波可起到较好的衰减作用,即通过芯层的塑性变形,耗散了冲击过程中产生的大部分能量,对里面的圆柱壳体起到较好的保护作用,由于夹芯防护层的存在,与等质量的普通圆柱壳相比,夹芯圆柱壳能够承受更强的爆炸冲击波,降低结构的整体变形。     

撞击载荷下泡沫铝夹层板的动力响应

应用泡沫金属子弹撞击加载的方式研究了固支方形夹层板和等质量实体板的动力响应,分别应用激光测速装置和位移传感器测量了泡沫子弹的撞击速度和后面板中心点的位移历史,给出了夹层板的变形与失效模式,研究了子弹冲量、面板厚度、泡沫芯层厚度及芯层密度对夹层板抗撞击性能的影响。结果表明,后面板中心点挠度最大,周边最小,整体变形为穹形,且伴有花瓣形的变形。参数研究表明,通过增加面板厚度或芯层厚度均能有效控制后面板的挠度,改善夹层板的能量吸收能力,结构响应对子弹冲量和芯层密度比较敏感。实验结果对多孔金属夹层结构的优化设计具有一定的参考价值。 更多还原     

Dynamic response of anisotropic sandwich flat panels to underwater and in-air explosions

The problem of the dynamic response of flat rectangular sandwich panels subjected to underwater and in-air explosions is analyzed. The study is carried out in the framework of a geometrically non-linear model of sandwich structures featuring anisotropic laminated face sheets and an orthotropic core, in conjunction with the unsteady pressure generated by an explosion. Effects of the core and of the orthotropy of its material, as well as those related to the ply-thickness, directional material property and stacking sequence of face sheets, geometrical non-linearities and of the structural damping ratio are investigated, and their implications upon the dynamic response are highlighted. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, the specialized literature addressing the dynamic response of sandwich structures to underwater and in-air explosions is rather scanty. This work is likely to fill a gap in the specialized literature on this topic.     

Mathematical modelling of the axially moving panels subjected to thermomechanical actions

The paper is devoted to a stability and out-of-plane deformation analysis of an axially moving elastic web modelled as a panel (a plate undergoing cylindrical deformation). The panel is under homogeneous pure mechanical in-plane tension and thermal strains corresponding to the thermal tension and bending. In accordance with the static approach of stability analysis the problem of out-of-plane thermomechanical divergence (buckling) is reduced to an eigenvalue problem which is analytically solved. This problem corresponds to the case of in-plane thermomechanical tension and zero thermal bending. The general case of deformations induced by combined thermomechanical bending and tension is reduced to nonhomogeneous boundary-value problem and analyzed with the help of Fourier series.     

Thermo-mechanical response of tension panels under intense rapid heating

The temperature dependence of the fracture strength of 7075-T6 aluminum alloy was determined under rapid heating (0.02–.50 sec) conditions by exposing thin-section specimens to intense surface irradiation while under constant tensile load. When combined with a numerical thermal analysis and an appropriate limit analysis, these data enabled accurate prediction of the heating time required to produce ductile fracture in spot irradiated tension panels. The transient heat transfer model employed in the computations incorporated material removal due to melting, temperature-dependent material properties, and convection/radiation losses.     

Dynamic crushing of sandwich panels with prismatic lattice cores

The dynamic out-of-plane compressive response of stainless steel corrugated and Y-frame sandwich cores have been investigated for impact velocities ranging from quasi-static to 200 ms⁻¹. Laboratory-scale sandwich cores of relative density 2.5% were manufactured and the stresses on the front and rear faces of the dynamically compressed sandwich cores were measured using a direct impact Kolsky bar. Direct observational evidence is provided for micro-inertial stabilisation of both topologies against elastic buckling at impact velocities below 30 ms⁻¹. At higher impact velocities, plastic waves within the core members result in the front face stresses increasing with increasing velocity while the rear face stresses remain approximately constant. While the finite element calculations predict the rear face stresses and dynamic deformation modes to reasonable accuracy, the relatively slow response time of the measurement apparatus results in poor agreement between the measured and predicted front face stresses. The finite element calculations also demonstrate that material strain-rate effects have a negligible effect upon the dynamic compressive response of laboratory-scale and full-scale sandwich cores.     

撞击载荷下泡沫铝夹芯梁的塑性动力响应

应用泡沫金属子弹撞击加载的方式研究了固支泡沫铝夹芯梁和等质量实体梁的塑性动力响应。 采用激光测速装置和位移传感器测量了泡沫子弹的撞击速度和后面板中心点的位移-时间曲线,研究了加载 冲量、面板厚度和芯层厚度对夹芯梁抗冲击性能的影响。给出了泡沫铝夹芯梁的变形与失效模式,实验结果 表明结构响应对夹芯结构配置比较敏感,后面板中心点的残余变形与加载冲量、面板厚度呈线性关系。与等 质量实体梁的比较表明,泡沫铝夹芯梁具有更好的抗冲击能力。实验结果对多孔金属夹芯结构的优化设计具 有一定的参考价值。     

Thermal nonlinear behavior of sandwich panels: Experimental measurements

Elasticity solutions for sandwich panels assembled with nonrigid bondings and subjected to temperature changes are presented. The solutions satisfy the equilibrium equations of the face and core element, and the compability equations of stresses and strains at the interfaces. An experimental program is conducted to measure the normal strains in the faces of sandwich specimens under different temperature changes. A heat chamber is designed and used to cause thermal gradients across the specimens. The material properties were determined experimentally and used in conjunction with the analytical solutions. Both analytical and experimental results are found to be in very good agreement.     

Effective thermal conductivity of wire-woven bulk Kagome sandwich panels

Thermal transport in a highly porous metallic wire-woven bulk Kagome (WBK) is numerically and analytically modeled. Based on topology similarity and upon introducing an elongation parameter in thermal tortuosity, an idealized Kagome with non-twisted struts is employed. Special focus is placed upon quantifying the effect of topological anisotropy of WBK upon its effective conductivity. It is demonstrated that the effective conductivity reduces linearly as the porosity increases, and the extent of the reduction is significantly dependent on the orientation of WBK. The governing physical mechanism of anisotropic thermal transport in WBK is found to be the anisotropic thermal tortuosity caused by the intrinsic anisotropic topology of WBK.     

冰雹撞击下泡沫铝夹芯板的动态响应

在传统单层泡沫夹芯结构的上、下面板之间插入中面板,通过移动中面板的位置,获得了外形尺寸相同、质量相等的5种构型夹芯结构,其上层芯材与芯材总厚度比分别为0:30、10:30、15:30、20:30和30:30。在量纲分析的基础上,应用非线性动力有限元程序LS-DYNA对5种构型夹芯结构进行了冰雹撞击数值分析,研究了中面板位置对夹芯板的能量吸收、能量耗散和动态响应的影响。结果表明:中面板的存在对下层芯材能形成有效的保护;随着中面板位置由上向下移动,夹芯板的抗撞击性能呈现由大到小再增大的态势。数值计算结果对抗冰雹撞击夹芯结构的优化设计具有一定的参考价值。     

Dynamic response of composite sandwich plates subjected to time-dependent pressure pulses

The dynamic response of orthotropic sandwich composite plates impacted by time-dependent external blast pulses is studied by use of numerical techniques. The theory is based on classical sandwich plate theory including the large deformation effects, such as geometric non-linearities, in-plane stiffness and inertias, and shear deformation. The equations of motion for the plate are derived by the use of the virtual work principle. Approximate solutions are assumed for the space domain and substituted into the equations of motion. Then the Galerkin Method is used to obtain the non-linear differential equations in the time domain. The finite difference method is applied to solve the system of coupled non-linear equations. The results of theoretical analyses are obtained and compared with ANSYS results. Effects of the face sheet number, as well as those related to the ply-thickness, core thickness, geometrical non-linearities, and of the aspect ratio are investigated. Detailed analyses of the influence of different type of pressure pulses on dynamic response are carried out.     

Structural performance of near-optimal sandwich panels with corrugated cores

An experimental and computational study of the bending response of steel sandwich panels with corrugated cores in both transverse and longitudinal loading orientations has been performed. Panel designs were chosen on the basis of failure mechanism maps, constructed using analytic models for failure initiation. The assessment affirms that the analytic models provide accurate predictions when failure initiation is controlled by yielding. However, discrepancies arise when failure initiation is governed by other mechanisms. One difficulty is related to the sensitivity of the buckling loads to the rotational constraints of the nodes, as well as to fabrication imperfections. The second relates to the compressive stresses beneath the loading platen. To address these deficiencies, existing models for core failure have been expanded. The new results have been validated by experimental measurements and finite element simulations. Limit loads have also been examined and found to be sensitive to the failure mechanism. When face yielding predominates, appreciable hardening follows the initial non-linearity, rendering robustness. Conversely, for designs controlled by buckling (either elastic or plastic) failure initiation is immediately followed by softening. The implication is that, when robustness is a key requirement, designs within the face failure domain are preferred.     

Theoretical prediction on corrugated sandwich panels under bending loads

In this paper, an aluminum corrugated sandwich panel with triangular core under bending loads was investigated. Firstly, the equivalent material parameters of the triangular corrugated core layer, which could be considered as an orthotropic panel, were obtained by using Castigliano’s theorem and equivalent homogeneous model. Secondly, contributions of the corrugated core layer and two face panels were both considered to compute the equivalent material parameters of the whole structure through the classical lamination theory, and these equivalent material parameters were compared with finite element analysis solutions. Then, based on the Mindlin orthotropic plate theory, this study obtain the closed-form solutions of the displacement for a corrugated sandwich panel under bending loads in specified boundary conditions, and parameters study and comparison by the finite element method were executed simultaneously.