- Title
- Impact performance of laminates made of syntatic foam and glass fibre reinforced epoxy as protective material
- Creator
- Kim, Ho Sung; Mitchell, Calvin
- Relation
- Journal of Applied Polymer Science Vol. 89, Issue 9, p. 2306-2310
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/app.12470
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2003
- Description
- Impact performance of two-dimensional quasi-isotropic laminates subjected to impact loading with flat-ended impactors has been studied in terms of impact stress, strain rate, and volume fraction of laminae. A simple model was formulated to predict impact stress within an elastic limit as a function of volume fractions of laminae. Individual impact parameters for syntactic foam and fiber-reinforced epoxy were experimentally obtained at impact energy levels of 0.54 and 0.87 Joule, and used to predict impact stress of the laminates made of the same materials. A reasonable agreement between predictions and experimental results were found.
- Subject
- impact; protection; strain rate; volume fraction; laminate
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/33337
- Identifier
- uon:3205
- Identifier
- ISSN:0021-8995
- Language
- eng
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