Multilayered recoverable sandwich composite structures with architected core

LS-DYNA Impact Simulation of Composite Sandwich Structures with Balsa Wood Core

The impact damage response of balsa core sandwich composite plates with S2-glass/ epoxy reinforced facesheets is evaluated by impacting them with a spherical steel projectile at single impact locations. The impact damage can significantly reduce the structural integrity and load bearing capacity of a composite structure. Under high velocity impact loading, laminated composites experience signif...

Force protection using composite sandwich structures

In the recent past, advances have been made in the attempt to utilize composite materials as components in protective structures such as those employed by the Air Force to secure critical military assets. In such applications, where lightweight materials that exhibit large levels of energy absorption and high strength/stiffness characteristics are desirable, composite sandwich constructions off...

Ultralight Cellular Composite Materials with Architected Geometrical Structure

In this paper we present a novel computational approach to predict the overall hyperelastic mechanical properties of ultralight cuboct cellular lattices made of brittle carbon fiber-reinforced polymer composites, such as the ones recently fabricated at the MIT Media Lab-Center for Bits and Atoms. These architected cellular composites, by combining both the specific features of composite materia...

Damage tolerance and residual strength of composite sandwich structures

Structural-Acoustic Optimization of Composite Sandwich Structures: A Review

We review recent advances in the area of composite sandwich modeling, sensitivity analyses, optimization techniques and applications, with the focus on structuralacoustic problems. The optimization of sandwich structures is with respect to passive design parameters, such as material constants, geometric parameters, cellular core geometry and boundary conditions.