Impact and compression after impact properties of plain weave carbon fiber sandwich composites were investigated in this study. Impact tests were conducted on different sample types to obtain information about absorbed energy and force. The different samples consisted of foam filled and hollow honeycomb cores with four layer carbon fiber sheets on one or both sides. The impact and compression a...

Low velocity impact experiments (0.14 to l km/ s) carried out in polycrystalline water ice targets at 257 and 81 K resulted in interactions which can be assigned to four fragmentation classes, cratering, erosion, disruption, and total fragmentation. Specific kinetic energies for the transitions between these classes range from l x 105 to 7 x 105 ergs/g for 81 K ice and from 3 x 105 to 2 x 106 e...

This paper presents experimental results of both quasi-static compression and low-velocity impact behavior for tri-axial bio-composite structural panels using a spherical load head. Panels were made having different core and face configurations. The results showed that panels made having either carbon fiber fabric composite faces or a foam-filled core had significantly improved impact and compr...

In this study a Modified Compressible Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (MCSPH) method is introduced which is applicable in problems involve shock wave structures and elastic-plastic deformations of solids. As a matter of fact, algorithm of the method is based on an approach which descritizes the momentum equation into three parts and solves each part separately and calculates their effects on th...

This work involves three parts , first part is manufacturing different types of laminated below knee prosthetic socket materials with classical used in Baghdad center for and orthotic (4perlon layers+2carbon fiber layer+4 perlon layers) two suggested materials(3perlon layer+3 (3perlon layers+1carbon ) order to choose perfect . The second tests (Impact test) the specimens get impact properties e...

The capability to absorb energy, often called as toughness, is of importance in actual service conditions mesh reinforced composites, when they may be subjected static, dynamic and fatigue loads. Toughness evaluated under impact loads the strength. toughness materials are determined by two methods, (i) measuring deformation load, (ii) determining energy adsorption capacity load. Several methods...