Abstract
New types of tridimensional composite materials have been developed during the last few years. These new materials consist of braided, weft or warp knitted, and 3D woven composites preforms, and they present excellent out-of-plane mechanical properties. In this article, tubular energy absorbers, constituted of carbon-glass hybrid braided composites, are analyzed by means of the finite-element method, with explicit time integration of the equations of motion. A new material model for (0°, - f °) braided composites is introduced in a commercial finite-element code by means of user-developed subroutines. Braided materials with carbon fiber in the 0° direction and glass fibers in the - f ° directions are studied. Moreover, different fiber orientations and geometry of the triggering devices are analyzed in order to obtain the optimum configuration in terms of specific energy absorption.
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