Energy Absorption Analysis of Density Graded Aluminium Foam

Jingde Li;Ma GW;Hongyuan Zhou;Xiuli Du

期刊论文

International Journal of Protective Structures

3#2

2011//

333#349

333#349

A numerical approach is carried out to investigate the energy absorption efficency of density graded aluminium foam. Effects of blast load impact velocity, loading duration and sample thickness on the input energy density and output energy density of the graded foam are investigated. The stochastic meso-scale aluminium foam structure is generated by adopting a 2D Voronoi technique and the commercial software ANSYS/LS-DYNA is used for the FE modelling. Parametric study shows that the density graded aluminium foam is effective in improving energy absorption capability while keeping a lower stress transmitted to the substrate or the protected structure if it is properly designed.

抗爆结构"软抗"设计方法