Thin-Walled Composite Protective Structures for Crashworthiness Applications: Recent Advances and Future Developments (SpringerBriefs in Materials)

✍ Scribed by A. Praveen Kumar (editor), Tatacipta Dirgantara (editor), Sanjay Mavinkere Rangappa (editor)

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 121
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book summarizes many of the recent advances in the design and application of thin-walled composite protective structures. The past few decades have seen outstanding advances in the use of composite materials in structural applications. Composites have revolutionized traditional design concepts and made possible an unparalleled range of new and exciting possibilities as viable materials for construction. This book presents an extensive survey on recent improvements in the research and development of composites and biocomposites that are used to make structures in various applications. This book deals with design, research and development studies, experimental investigations, theoretical analysis, and fabrication techniques relevant to the application of composites in load-bearing components for assemblies, ranging from individual components such as plates and shells to complete composite structures. This book also focuses the recent advances in biocomposite materials from renewableresources and introduces a potential application of this material. The content is this book benefits the academics, researchers, scientists, engineers, and students in the field of epoxy blends for application as lightweight advanced composite structures.

✦ Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Contents
Crashworthiness Performance of Sandwich Panel with Self-Reinforced Polypropylene (SRPP) and Carbon Fiber-Reinforced Plastic (CFRP) Spherical-Roof Contoured Cores
1 Introduction
2 Materials and Methods
2.1 Materials Preparation
2.2 Specimen Preparation
2.3 Quasi-Static Compression Loading Test
3 Results and Discussion
3.1 Effect of Spherical-Roof Contoured-Core Material Type
3.2 Failure Behavior of the Spherical-Roof Contoured-Core Sandwich Panel
4 Conclusion
References
Design of Thin Wall Composite Structures for Energy Absorption Applications
1 Introduction
2 Crushing Indicators of Thin-Walled Composite Structure
2.1 Energy Absorption (EA)
2.2 Specific Energy Absorption (SEA)
2.3 Initial Peak Crushing Force (IPCF)
2.4 Mean Crushing Force (MCF)
2.5 Crushing Force Efficiency (CFE)
3 Design Implementation
3.1 Foam Structure
3.2 Architected Structure
4 Conclusion and Future Prospective
References
Crashworthiness Performance of Foam Filled Composite Tubular Structures
1 Introduction
2 Crashworthiness Performance of Foam Filled Tubular Structures
2.1 Initial Peak Load (Fmax)
2.2 Maximum Displacement (δmax)
2.3 Total Energy Absorption (EA)
2.4 Specific Energy Absorption (SEA)
2.5 Average Crushing Load (Pavg)
2.6 Crushing Force Efficiency (CFE)
2.7 Stroke Efficiency (SE)
2.8 Maximum Compressive Strength (σmax)
2.9 Energy Absorption Per Stroke (EPS)
2.10 Energy-Absorbing Effectiveness (EAE)
3 Deformation Mechanisms
3.1 Axial Loading
3.2 Bending Loading
4 Application of Foam Filled Composite Tubular Structure
5 Conclusions
References
Response of Thin-Walled Composite Polymer Structures Fabricated via Additive Manufacturing Technologies
1 An Overview of Additive Manufacturing (AM)
2 Importance of AM
3 Thin-Wall Structural Response Prediction
4 Curvy Stiffeners and Axial Crushing of 3D-Printed Polymer Composite Cylindrical Tube Structures
5 Laminated Object Manufacturing (LOM)
6 Polypropylene (PP) and Polyethylene (PE)
7 Solving Barriers in AM
8 The Planning and Improvement of Structures that Have Limited Wall Thickness
9 Building Walls with a Slender Gauge of Construction FDM Structures
10 Conclusions
References
Design of Bio-mimetic Structures Through Additive Manufacturing for Crashworthiness Applications
1 Introduction
1.1 Bio-inspired Thin-Walled Structures
1.2 Bio-inspired Plates and Sandwich Panels
1.3 Bio-inspired Cellular Structures
1.4 Civil and Helical Structures
2 Research Approach—Bio-inspired Structures
3 Overview of Bio-inspired Structures
3.1 Bio-inspired Human Skeleton and Skull
3.2 Special Muscles in Human Body
3.3 Special Defence Structures in Animals
3.4 Structures Inspired from Sea Creatures
3.5 Structures Inspired from Birds and Shape Changing Structures
3.6 Structures Inspired from Plants
4 Role of Additive Manufacturing in Bio-inspired Structures
5 Mechanical Characteristics of Bioinspired Objects Made by Additive Manufacturing
6 Summary
7 Future Scope
References
Fatigue Life Prediction of Impact Damaged CGFRP Hybrid Laminates for Structural Applications
1 Introduction
2 Experiments
2.1 Specimens
2.2 Low Velocity Impact Test
2.3 Fatigue Test
3 Result and Discussion
4 Conclusion
References
Bio-inspired Protective Composite Structures for Automotive Applications
1 Introduction
2 Nature Biological Materials
3 High-Performance Components and Laser Additive Manufacturing (AM)
4 Laser Additive Manufacturing (AM) and Bio-inspired Structures
5 Biological Manufacturing of Composites
6 Biomimicry
7 Composite Materials
8 Potential of Bio-inspired Composite Parts in the Automotive Industry
9 Composites Using Biomimicry
10 Synthetic Composites Applications
11 Mobility Biomimicry
12 Land-Based Vehicles
13 Craft Designed for Use on the Water
14 Space Transportation Systems
15 Heavy Vehicles
16 Sources of Silk
17 Materials Inspiration Based on Silk
18 Summary
References