Abstract
The diagonal-enhanced square grid configuration inspired by glass sponge has great potential in mechanics, with geometries serving as honeycomb cores for sandwich panels, which can improve the structure’s energy absorption capabilities. Modeling the hexagonal honeycomb core (HHC) sandwich panels, a finite element numerical model for low-speed impact of sandwich panels with high accuracy is proposed, and low-speed impact response of bio-inspired diagonal-enhanced square honeycomb core (BSHC) sandwich panels is studied. The impact response of BSHC sandwich panels, Hexagonal honeycomb core (HHC) sandwich panels and ordinary square honeycomb core (OSHC) sandwich panels were studied with the same relative densities and the same face-sheets. BSHC can lead to significantly enhanced the peak loads and stiffness of the sandwich panels. BSHC sandwich panels not only have excellent energy absorption performance, but also outperform HHC sandwich panels in terms of resistance to impact deformation. BSHC can transfer dynamic loads from the front face-sheet to the back face-sheet efficiently without stress concentration in the core itself. A theoretical analysis of the energy absorption capacity of the BSHCs and HHC were performed to illustrate the energy absorption mechanism. In addition, the peak load and contact energy of BSHC sandwich panels and HHC sandwich panels were theoretically predicted under low-speed impact.
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