Abstract
The combination of auxetic honeycomb and CNT reinforcement composite is expected to further improve the impact protection performance of sandwich structures. This paper studies the low-velocity impact response of sandwich plates with functionally graded carbon nanotubes reinforced composite (FG-CNTRC) face sheets and negative Poisson’s ratio (NPR) auxetic honeycomb core. The material properties of FG-CNTRC were obtained by the rule of mixture theory. The auxetic honeycomb core is made of Ti-6Al-4V. The governing equations are derived based on the first-order shear deformation theory and Hamilton’s principle. The nonlinear Hertz contact law is used to calculate the impact parameters. The Ritz method with Newmark’s time integration schemes is used to solve the response of the sandwich plates. The (20/−20/20)s, (45/−45/45)s and (70/−70/70)s stacking sequences of FG-CNTRC are considered. The effects of the gradient forms of FG-CNTRC surfaces, volume fractions of CNTs, impact velocities, temperatures, ratio of plate length, width and thickness of surface layers on the value of the plate center displacement, the recovery time of deformation, contact force and contact time of low-velocity impact were analyzed in detail.
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