Deformation and damage mechanisms of laminated glass windows subjected to high velocity soft impact

Damage Assessment in Glass Fiber-Epoxy Matrix Composite under High Velocity Impact of Ice

This study investigated the influence of nanoclay on the impact damage resistance of glass fiber-epoxy composites under high velocity ice impact loading. Addition of 0.5 wt. % nanoclay into epoxy was shown to improve damage resistance compared to composite plates having no nanoclay platelet. The glass fiber-epoxy composites containing nanoclay brought about substantial improvement in ice impact...

Low Velocity Impact Damage Prediction in Laminated Composite Plates

In this paper, a finite element model is presented for the transient analysis of low velocity impact, and the impact induced damage in the composite plate subjected to low velocity impact is studied. The failure criteria suggested by Choi and Chang and the Tsai-Hill failure criteria are used for the prediction of the damage in the composite plate; then the effect of various parameters on the im...

Deformation and damage mechanisms of multiwalled carbon nanotubes under high-velocity impact

Srinivasa R. Bakshi, Virendra Singh, D. Graham McCartney, Sudipta Seal and Arvind Agarwal* Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33174, USA AMPAC, Nanoscience and Technology Center (NSTC) and Mechanical, Materials and Aerospace Engineering, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816, USA School of Mechanical, Materials and Manufact...

The Low Velocity Impact Behaviour of Glass-Polymer Laminated Plates

High-velocity impact damage modeling of laminated composites using Abaqus/Explicit and multiscale methods

The present work describes a multiscale methodology which has been developed for modeling of impact damage in the laminated composite structures. The methodology employs the High Fidelity Generalized Method of Cells (HFGMC) micromechanical model for the prediction of the local stress and strain fields, within the representative unit cell of the unidirectional composite material. The Mixed Mode ...