Dynamic Mechanical Response and Damage Mechanism of HTPB Propellant under Impact Loading

Mechanical response of pig skin under dynamic tensile loading

Uniaxial tensile experiments were performed on pig skin to investigate the tensile stressestrain response at both quasi-static and dynamic rates of deformation. A Kolsky tension bar, also called a split Hopkinson tension bar (SHTB), was modified to conduct the dynamic experiments. Semiconductor strain gages were used to measure the low levels of the transmitted signal from pig skin. A pulse sha...

Effect of Defects on Mechanical Properties of Graphene under Shear Loading Using Molecular Dynamic Simulation

Graphene sheet including single vacancy, double vacancy and Stone-Wales with armchair and zigzag structure was simulated using molecular dynamics simulation. The effect of defects on shear’s modulus, shear strength and fracture  strain was investigated. Results showed that these shear properties reduce when the degrees of all kinds of defects increase. The dangling bond in SV and DV defected gr...

HTPB-Polyurethane: A Versatile Fuel Binder for Composite Solid Propellant

Deformation mechanisms and damage in -alumina under hypervelocity impact loading

impact loading Cheng Zhang, Rajiv K. Kalia, Aiichiro Nakano, Priya Vashishta, and Paulo S. Branicio Collaboratory for Advanced Computing and Simulations, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Department of Physics and Astronomy, and Department of Computer Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089-0242, USA Departmento de Física, Universidade F...

Influence of Sudden Column Loss on Dynamic Response of Steel Moment Frames under Blast Loading

Modeling buildings response to blast and subsequent progressive collapse interested more and more researchers during the past two decades. Due to the threat from extreme loading, efforts have been made to develop methods of structural analysis and design. In this paper, progressive collapse capacity of steel moment frames was first investigated using alternate load path method, then a nonlinear...