Impact energy absorption of functionally graded chiral honeycomb structures
By Dexing Qi, Qiuyu Lu, Chunwang He, Ying Li, Wenwang Wu, D. Xiao. Extreme Mechanics Letters, 2019
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Abstract Auxetic chiral structures with negative Poisson ratio (NPR) can contract its width along the directions perpendicular to compression loading direction, thus generate enhanced indentation resistance and enhanced impact energy absorption abilities. To enhance the dynamic mechanical performances of periodic anti-chiral structures and hybrid-chiral structures, geometrically graded ligaments are proposed, and the in-plane dynamic deformation mechanism and energy absorption capacity of the functionally graded anti-chiral and hybrid-chiral cellular structures are studied through finite element analysis (FEA). Numerical results in our work show that the crushing energy absorption performances of periodic chiral structures can be improved by introducing structural graded design, where the plateau stress and energy absorption efficiency can be optimized by means of adjusting the unit cell geometrical parameters. Our study can enrich insightful understanding of the dynamic behavior of chiral cellular materials, and can be employed for optimizing the design of automobile crash energy absorption and impact protection structures.
Subfields: Automotive Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
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- Design and Optimization of Lattice Structures: A Review (2020, background): “At present, re-entrant honeycomb auxetic structures [12–16] and chiral honeycomb structures [17–19] are attractive, which improve the performance and extend the application of honeycombs.”