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Numerical evaluation of lightweight ultra high strength steel sandwich for energy absorption

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SN APPLIED SCIENCES
卷 2, 期 11, 页码 -

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SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG
DOI: 10.1007/s42452-020-03724-9

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UHSS; Sandwich; Lightweight; Modeling; RVE

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  1. Lulea University of Technology - Swedish lightweight innovation programme-LIGHTer [2016-04343]
  2. Vinnova [2016-04343] Funding Source: Vinnova

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Legislation regarding greenhouse gas emissions forces automotive manufacturers to bring forth new and innovative materials and structures for weight reduction of the body-in-white. The present work evaluates a lightweight ultra high strength steel sandwich concept, with perforated cores, for energy absorption applications. Hat-profile geometries, subjected to crushing, are studied numerically to evaluate specific energy absorption for the sandwich concept and solid hat-profiles of equivalent weight. Precise discretization of the perforated core requires large computational power. In the present work, this is addressed by homogenization, replacing the perforated core with a homogeneous material with equivalent mechanical properties. Input data for the equivalent material is obtained by analyzing a representative volume element, subjected to in-plane loading and out-of-plane bending/twisting using periodic boundary conditions. The homogenized sandwich reduces the number of finite elements and thereby computational time with approximately 95%, while maintaining accuracy with respect to force-displacement response and energy absorption. It is found that specific energy absorption is increased with 8-17%, when comparing solid and sandwich hat profiles of equivalent weight, and that a weight saving of at least 6% is possible for equivalent performance.

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