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Visco-Elastic Honeycomb Structures with Increased Energy Absorption and Shape Recovery Performance Using Buckling Initiators

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POLYMERS
卷 15, 期 16, 页码 -

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MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/polym15163350

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honeycomb; out of plane compression; energy absorption; crashworthiness

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Energy-absorbing materials are widely used in aerospace and automotive applications. This study designed additively manufactured TPE honeycombs with buckling initiators, which increased crashworthiness characteristics and maintained crush efficiency even after multiple rounds of compression testing. The samples with buckling initiators showed a higher crush efficiency compared to their counterparts without buckling initiators, regardless of the strain rate used.
Energy-absorbing materials have extensive applications in aerospace and automotive applications. Research has shown buckling initiators, or triggers, in energy-absorbing tubular structures increase the energy absorbed by encouraging the side panels to fold when loaded out of plane in compression conditions. Additively manufactured TPE honeycombs were designed in this study to include these buckling initiators, which introduced a slight decrease in initial weight, as well as initial stress concentrations, while improving crashworthiness characteristics. The samples with buckling initiators (1BI) showed an increase in crush efficiency when directly compared to their no buckling initiator (0BI) counterparts. The 1BI samples maintained an increased crush efficiency regardless of the strain rate used. The samples with 1BI were able to better equilibrate the peak stress with the plateau stress. These honeycomb samples were found to maintain their crush efficiency, even after multiple rounds of compression testing. The quasi-static 0BI samples experienced a 23.4% decrease in the peak stress after multiple rounds of compression testing, while the 1BI samples saw approximately a 23.0% decrease. The 1BI samples averaged a decrease in crush efficiency of 0.5%, while the 0BI samples saw a decrease in crush efficiency of 5%. As the strain rate increased, the crush efficiency for the 1BI samples showed an increase in performance, with a smaller degradation in crush efficiency over multiple uses. Visco-elastic honeycomb with buckling initiators has a higher energy absorption than samples with no buckling initiators when exposed to multiple impact cycles.

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