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Oblique penetration mechanism of hybrid composite laminates

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posted on 2021-11-01, 15:51 authored by Meng Han, Chuwei Zhou, Vadim SilberschmidtVadim Silberschmidt, Xindong Ma, Mao Liu, Wenan Jiang, Qinsheng Bi
Abstract Hybrid fiber composites are widely used to improve the anti-penetration performance. Carbon/Kevlar hybrid composites are used in aircrafts and safety devices, thanks to the strong toughness of Kevlar fibers and high strength of carbon fibers. In the present work, the contact force of hybrid composites under oblique impact is derived. The viscoelastic constitutive model of Kevlar layer is investigated and the dissipation energies of composites for different high velocity oblique impacts are simulated. The results show that hybrid composites have good bullet-proof performance, the contact forces are fluctuant in short time and the frictional dissipation energy allows us to prevent penetration.

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 12102152)

State Key Laboratory of Mechanics and Control of Mechanical Structures (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics) (Grant No. MCMS-E0221Y02)

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School

  • Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering

Published in

Science and Engineering of Composite Materials

Volume

28

Issue

1

Pages

568 - 578

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Version

  • VoR (Version of Record)

Rights holder

© The authors

Publisher statement

This is an Open Access Article. It is published by De Gruyter under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported Licence (CC BY). Full details of this licence are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Acceptance date

2021-09-24

Publication date

2021-10-25

Copyright date

2021

ISSN

0334-181X

eISSN

2191-0359

Language

  • en

Depositor

Prof Vadim Silberschmidt. Deposit date: 29 October 2021

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