A blast-tolerant sandwich plate design with a polyurea interlayer
By Y. Bahei-El-din, G. Dvorak, Olivia J. Fredricksen. 2006
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This paper presents a study of both conventional and modified sandwich plate designs subjected to blast loads. The conventional sandwich Design (1) consists of thin outer (loaded side) and inner facesheets made of fibrous laminates, separated by a layer of structural foam core. In the modified Design (2), a thin polyurea interlayer is inserted between the outer facesheet and the foam core. Comparisons of the two designs are made during a long time period of 5.0 ms, initiated by a pressure impulse lasting 0.05 ms applied to a single span of a continuous plate. In the initial response period the overall deflections are limited and significant foam core crushing is caused in the conventional design by the incident compression wave. This type of damage is much reduced in the modified design, by stiffening of the polyurea interlayer under shock compression, which provides support to the outer facesheet and alters propagation of stress waves into the foam core. This benefits the long term, bending response and leads to significant reductions in facesheet strains and overall deflection. The total kinetic energy of the modified sandwich plate is much lower than that of a conventionally designed plate, and so is the stored and dissipated strain energy. Similar reductions are found when the conventional and the enhanced sandwich plates have equal overall thickness or equal total mass.
Subfields: Civil and Structural Engineering, Computational Mechanics, Mechanical Engineering
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- Deformation of polyurea-coated steel plates under localised blast loading (2013, methodology): “Polyurea has also been used in the design of sandwich materials (Bahei-El-Din and Dvorak, 2007, Bahei-El-Din et al., 2006, Gardner et al., 2012), composite panels (Hui and Oskay, 2012, Kim et al., 2012, McShane et al., 2008, Tekalur et al., 2008) and as a helmet suspension pad material (Grujicic et…”
- Plastic Deformation, Failure and Energy Absorption of Sandwich Structures with Metallic Cellular Cores (2010, background): “Examples of modelling composite face sandwich structures under blast loading can be seen in [159–162].”
- Polyurea coated composite aluminium plates subjected to high velocity projectile impact (2013, background): “[12] and Bahei-El-Din and Dvorak [13] to examine the blast mitigation capability of the composite panels.”
- Blast Mitigation in a Sandwich Composite Using Graded Core and Polyurea Interlayer (2012, background): “Bahei-El-Din et al. [ 12 ] numerically investigated the blast resistance of sandwich plates with a polyurea interlayer under blast loading.”