4.7 Article

Blast performance of a sacrificial cladding with composite tubes for protection of civil engineering structures

Journal

COMPOSITES PART B-ENGINEERING
Volume 65, Issue -, Pages 131-146

Publisher

ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.compositesb.2014.02.004

Keywords

Polymer-matrix composites; Impact behaviour; Numerical analysis; Mechanical testing

Funding

  1. Fund for Scientific Research - Flanders (F.W.O) [G.0114.07]

Ask authors/readers for more resources

Crushing of composite tubes under impact loading has been studied very intensively over the last few decades. On the contrary, the energy absorption of composite tubes under blast loading is much less studied, and very limited public literature is available. This paper presents the experimental testing of a sacrificial cladding structure, composed of glass/polyester tubes, under blast loading. The composite tubes show stable and progressive crushing and the peak force transferred to the non-sacrificial structure is compared for different configurations of the composite tubes. The results also show that the diffraction of the pressure wave and the skin panel that distributes the blast pressure are critical issues in the set-up of the experiments. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Authors

I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.

Reviews

Primary Rating

4.7
Not enough ratings

Secondary Ratings

Novelty
-
Significance
-
Scientific rigor
-
Rate this paper

Recommended

No Data Available
No Data Available