The impact response of environmental-friendly sandwich structures
The low-velocity impact response of sandwich structures based on fully-recyclable skin and core materials has been investigated. Particular attention has been focused on structures based on self-reinforced polypropylene skins combined with a polypropylene honeycomb core. Two types of skin designs we...
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| author | Hassan, Mohamad Zaki Umer, R. Balawi, S. Cantwell, W. J. |
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| description | The low-velocity impact response of sandwich structures based on fully-recyclable skin and core materials has been investigated. Particular attention has been focused on structures based on self-reinforced polypropylene skins combined with a polypropylene honeycomb core. Two types of skin designs were considered, the first being based on a single 'as-supplied' monolithic self-reinforced polypropylene laminate and the second being manufactured from thin self-reinforced polypropylene sheets bonded together using a hot-melt polypropylene film. For comparative purposes, a limited number of tests have also been carried out on a more conventional GFRP/aluminium honeycomb sandwich structure. Drop-weight impact test have shown that all-polypropylene honeycomb sandwich structures absorb significant energy through plastic deformation in the composite skins as well as plastic buckling in the honeycomb core. It has also been shown that the design of the self-reinforced polypropylene skin has a significant effect on the energy-absorbing characteristics of the sandwich structure, with the performance of systems based on multiple layer skins greatly exceeding that observed following tests on a monolithic design. Tests on plain laminates also yielded similar conclusions, with multilayer systems offering much higher perforation resistances than their plain counterparts. Finally, it has been demonstrated that when the impact data are normalised by their respective areal densities, the all-polypropylene composites significantly out-perform GFRP/aluminium honeycomb sandwich structures. |
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| spelling | utm.eprints-629472017-10-03T04:33:54Z http://eprints.utm.my/62947/ The impact response of environmental-friendly sandwich structures Hassan, Mohamad Zaki Umer, R. Balawi, S. Cantwell, W. J. T Technology The low-velocity impact response of sandwich structures based on fully-recyclable skin and core materials has been investigated. Particular attention has been focused on structures based on self-reinforced polypropylene skins combined with a polypropylene honeycomb core. Two types of skin designs were considered, the first being based on a single 'as-supplied' monolithic self-reinforced polypropylene laminate and the second being manufactured from thin self-reinforced polypropylene sheets bonded together using a hot-melt polypropylene film. For comparative purposes, a limited number of tests have also been carried out on a more conventional GFRP/aluminium honeycomb sandwich structure. Drop-weight impact test have shown that all-polypropylene honeycomb sandwich structures absorb significant energy through plastic deformation in the composite skins as well as plastic buckling in the honeycomb core. It has also been shown that the design of the self-reinforced polypropylene skin has a significant effect on the energy-absorbing characteristics of the sandwich structure, with the performance of systems based on multiple layer skins greatly exceeding that observed following tests on a monolithic design. Tests on plain laminates also yielded similar conclusions, with multilayer systems offering much higher perforation resistances than their plain counterparts. Finally, it has been demonstrated that when the impact data are normalised by their respective areal densities, the all-polypropylene composites significantly out-perform GFRP/aluminium honeycomb sandwich structures. SAGE Publications 2014 Article PeerReviewed Hassan, Mohamad Zaki and Umer, R. and Balawi, S. and Cantwell, W. J. (2014) The impact response of environmental-friendly sandwich structures. Journal of Composite Materials, 48 (25). pp. 3083-3090. ISSN 0021-9983 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021998313506727 DOI:10.1177/0021998313506727 |
| spellingShingle | T Technology Hassan, Mohamad Zaki Umer, R. Balawi, S. Cantwell, W. J. The impact response of environmental-friendly sandwich structures |
| title | The impact response of environmental-friendly sandwich structures |
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| title_short | The impact response of environmental-friendly sandwich structures |
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