Projectile impact test is carried out to investigate damage and failure behaviour under different impact velocity from 90m/s to 160m/s. Strain-time history curve on the control points are analysed in this paper. Sandwich beam dynamic response and the degree of structural degeneration under impact loading both depends on the thickness of metallic skins. The projectile impact test demonstrate difference damage characteristics between the sandwich beams with different thickness skins. The peak stress value are estimated approximately to determine the skin deformation and sandwich beam global damage degree.
Sandwich construction consists of two thin composite or metal facesheets separated by a core material. Despite extensive researches on the sandwich constructions, their mechanical properties and failure behaviours are still not fully understand. The objective of the paper is to use a experimental and theoretical predicting failure mode for sandwich beam consisting of GFRP facesheets and Nomex honeycomb core. Two kinds of composite sandwich beams are observed in quasi-static three-point bending and indentation test.
Aerodynamic gun impact test is carried out to investigate sandwich beam with metallic skin and Nomex honeycomb core damage mechanism and failure behaviour. Details of the deformation and damage progression within the sandwich beam are observed in particular. The comparisons between the two kinds of specimen with different thickness skins clearly show that the difference in the impact energy consumed in global bending deformation and the localized indentation. Theoretical elastic bending stiffness of the sandwich beam with thicker skins is approximately 2.26 times greater than that of sandwich beam with thinner skins.
The bending capacity of the beam end-plate or the column flange and the tensile property of the bolt could be expressed by an equivalent t-stub model. In this paper, ten groups of different sizes of T-stub are designed for monotonic loading test. The accurate element models are established for comparable study with the experimental result. The stress distribution and deformation characteristics of the T-stub and bolts are determined. A theoretic formula of tensile stiffness for T-stub is derived, it is presented that the calculation results are consistent with the tests.
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