Experimental and numerical evaluation of the blast-like loading of fiber reinforced polymer composites and aluminum corrugated core composite sandwiches through projectile impact testing using aluminum corrugated projectiles
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Odacı, İsmet Kutlay, author.

Title
Experimental and numerical evaluation of the blast-like loading of fiber reinforced polymer composites and aluminum corrugated core composite sandwiches through projectile impact testing using aluminum corrugated projectiles

Author
Odacı, İsmet Kutlay, author.

Personal Author
Odacı, İsmet Kutlay, author.

Physical Description
xxii, 253 leaves: color illustraltions.+ 1 computer laser optical disc.

Abstract
This thesis develops and validates a laboratory scale blast-like testing method that can simulate explosive blast tests in air and under water without using explosives. The study has mainly focused on the shock loading potential of 1050 H14 trapezoidal corrugated core aluminium sandwich structures on E-glass/polyester composite plates and corrugated core composite sandwich structures experimentally, numerically and analytically. The composite plates were modelled using MAT_162 material model in LS-DYNA finite element code. Quasi-static and high strain rate tests were performed to determine the material model parameters of composite and corrugated structure. The resultant parameters were calibrated and validated by comparing the numerical results with the experimental results. The planar shock wave formation and propagation in corrugated core sandwich structures were shown experimentally using a direct impact Split Hopkinson Pressure Bar test set-up. Rigid-perfectly-plastic-locking material model and Hugoniot jump relations revealed the shock loading potential of the tested corrugated core sandwich structures. The shock loading response of composite plates and sandwich structures were investigated by firing the corrugated sandwich projectiles on the targets. These impact tests were also simulated numerically and an analytic model was used to predict the plate deflections. The experimentally, numerically and analytically determined back face deflections were compared with the deflections of the Conwep blast simulations in LS-DYNA. The results have shown that the corrugated core sandwich structures can generate shock loading as in the explosive blast tests and can be used to produce shock loads in laboratory scale experiments.

Subject Term
Composite materials -- Testing.
 
Composite materials -- Impact testing.
 
Sandwich construction -- Testing.
 
Ballistics.

Added Author
Güden, Mustafa

Added Corporate Author
İzmir Institute of Technology. Mechanical Engineering.

Added Uniform Title
Thesis (Doctoral)--İzmir Institute of Technology: Mechanical Engineering.
 
İzmir Institute of Technology:Mechanical Engineering--Thesis (Doctoral).

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LibraryMaterial TypeItem BarcodeShelf NumberStatus
IYTE LibraryThesisT001418TA418.9.C6 O22 2015Tez Koleksiyonu
IYTE LibrarySupplementary CD-ROMROM2506TA418.9.C6 O22 2015 EK.1Tez Koleksiyonu