Abstract
An experimental investigation on the dynamic response of composite sandwich panels, comprising two titanium alloy plates and an aramid honeycomb core, subjected to intense impulse loading was carried out with the electric gun method. And brief results were presented within this paper. Based on the experiments, simulations were conducted with SPH-based internal structure model using the AUTODYN software. Here, the elasto-plastic constitutive was adopted to describe the mechanical behaviour of the core and corresponding matrix constitutive parameters were obtained quantitatively. An optimal particle size was determined by comparing the effects of different particle sizes on computational efficiency and accuracy. Afterwards, the proposed SPH model was validated with the experiments, making it feasible for following studies. To study the weakening effect of the core, a stress decay coefficient was proposed, and the results proved that the aramid honeycomb core played an important role in weakening the reflected tensile wave. Finally, the impact resistance assessment, in which three different forms of panels were compared, indicated that the aramid honeycomb sandwich panel was superior to the other two.
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