An innovative fixture for testing the crashworthiness of composite materials
Despite the growing diffusion of composite materials in automotive and aerospace sectors, a standard procedure for testing their crashworthiness has not been developed yet. At present, the international standards for testing composite materials under impact conditions are not adequate to test their...
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| author | Lorenzo Vigna Iman Babaei Ravin Garg Giovanni Belingardi Davide Salvatore Paolino Andrea Calzolari Giuseppe Galizia |
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| description | Despite the growing diffusion of composite materials in automotive and aerospace sectors, a standard procedure for testing their crashworthiness has not been developed yet. At present, the international standards for testing composite materials under impact conditions are not adequate to test their crush behavior.
In this paper, a procedure for measuring the energy absorption due to the compressive crushing of a composite flat specimen, along its mid plane, is proposed. The experimental setup requires a fixture to hold the specimen and to avoid its buckling and an instrumented drop weight tower to obtain the force-displacement curves with the aim of calculating the Specific Energy Absorption.
The paper will describe the adopted test procedure and some of the features of the newly developed experimental setup. The effectiveness of the procedure is demonstrated by testing several glass fiber-epoxy specimens under different impact energies. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-47a52c98a26a4c6bbc68cffad821115f2025-01-03T00:39:58ZengGruppo Italiano FratturaFracture and Structural Integrity1971-89932020-12-01155510.3221/IGF-ESIS.55.06An innovative fixture for testing the crashworthiness of composite materialsLorenzo Vigna0Iman Babaei1Ravin Garg2Giovanni Belingardi3Davide Salvatore Paolino4Andrea Calzolari5Giuseppe Galizia6Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, ItalyDepartment of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, ItalyDepartment of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, ItalyDepartment of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, ItalyDepartment of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, ItalyITW Test and Measurement ItalyITW Test and Measurement ItalyDespite the growing diffusion of composite materials in automotive and aerospace sectors, a standard procedure for testing their crashworthiness has not been developed yet. At present, the international standards for testing composite materials under impact conditions are not adequate to test their crush behavior. In this paper, a procedure for measuring the energy absorption due to the compressive crushing of a composite flat specimen, along its mid plane, is proposed. The experimental setup requires a fixture to hold the specimen and to avoid its buckling and an instrumented drop weight tower to obtain the force-displacement curves with the aim of calculating the Specific Energy Absorption. The paper will describe the adopted test procedure and some of the features of the newly developed experimental setup. The effectiveness of the procedure is demonstrated by testing several glass fiber-epoxy specimens under different impact energies.https://www.fracturae.com/index.php/fis/article/view/2925CrashworthinessSpecific Energy Absorptionimpact response |
| spellingShingle | Lorenzo Vigna Iman Babaei Ravin Garg Giovanni Belingardi Davide Salvatore Paolino Andrea Calzolari Giuseppe Galizia An innovative fixture for testing the crashworthiness of composite materials Fracture and Structural Integrity Crashworthiness Specific Energy Absorption impact response |
| title | An innovative fixture for testing the crashworthiness of composite materials |
| title_full | An innovative fixture for testing the crashworthiness of composite materials |
| title_fullStr | An innovative fixture for testing the crashworthiness of composite materials |
| title_full_unstemmed | An innovative fixture for testing the crashworthiness of composite materials |
| title_short | An innovative fixture for testing the crashworthiness of composite materials |
| title_sort | innovative fixture for testing the crashworthiness of composite materials |
| topic | Crashworthiness Specific Energy Absorption impact response |
| url | https://www.fracturae.com/index.php/fis/article/view/2925 |
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