Mesoscopic simulation study on density gradient metallic foam sandwich panels under hypervelocity impact

IF 5.7 1区 工程技术 Q1 ENGINEERING, CIVIL
Qunyi Tang , Qiguang He , Xiaowei Chen
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Abstract

The high stiffness of sandwich panel shield ensures the survival of satellites and spacecrafts, making them extensively utilized in practical aerospace engineering. Metallic foams are exceptionally appropriate for spacecraft debris shields owing to their light weight and superior energy absorption characteristics. The internal mesostructure of a metallic foam plays a crucial role in determining its protective performance. At the mesoscale, the density gradient metallic foam exhibits a greater potential for protection compared to uniform metallic foam under hypervelocity impact. Therefore, this study investigates the behavior of density-gradient foams under hypervelocity impact. By leveraging three-dimensional Voronoi tessellation in conjunction with the background mesh-mapping algorithm, this study constructed mesoscopic finite element models of the layered and continuous-density gradient metallic foam, considering the internal structure of randomness. Subsequently, the Finite Element-Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (FE-SPH) adaptive method in LS-DYNA was employed to conduct numerical simulations of the hypervelocity impact. First, the simulation was validated through a comparison with the experiment. Based on the results of the numerical simulations, the characteristics of the debris cloud and the damage within the foam were analyzed. It was determined that the protection mechanism of the density gradient foam sandwich panel under hypervelocity impact involved a coupling effect between the domino and microchannel effects. The different damage characteristics of layered density gradient foam sandwich panels were analyzed. According to this mechanism, foam sandwich panels with different density-gradient configurations were designed and their protective performances were compared to determine the optimal density-gradient configuration to provide valuable insights into the optimal design of protective structures.
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Thin-Walled Structures
Thin-Walled Structures 工程技术-工程:土木
CiteScore
9.60
自引率
20.30%
发文量
801
审稿时长
66 days
期刊介绍: Thin-walled structures comprises an important and growing proportion of engineering construction with areas of application becoming increasingly diverse, ranging from aircraft, bridges, ships and oil rigs to storage vessels, industrial buildings and warehouses. Many factors, including cost and weight economy, new materials and processes and the growth of powerful methods of analysis have contributed to this growth, and led to the need for a journal which concentrates specifically on structures in which problems arise due to the thinness of the walls. This field includes cold– formed sections, plate and shell structures, reinforced plastics structures and aluminium structures, and is of importance in many branches of engineering. The primary criterion for consideration of papers in Thin–Walled Structures is that they must be concerned with thin–walled structures or the basic problems inherent in thin–walled structures. Provided this criterion is satisfied no restriction is placed on the type of construction, material or field of application. Papers on theory, experiment, design, etc., are published and it is expected that many papers will contain aspects of all three.
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