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Development of a Test to Simulate Wave Impact on Composite Sandwich Marine Structures

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Dynamic Failure of Composite and Sandwich Structures

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Wave impact is a potentially damaging load case not only for fast ships and racing yachts but also for wave energy devices and signal buoys. This chapter describes the development and analysis of a test designed to simulate the response of composite and sandwich marine structures subjected to wave impact. First a brief overview of previous work on impact of composites and sandwich materials is given, and existing tests to study wave slamming are discussed. The development of a medicine ball test is then described, and examples of results from tests on various sandwich panels are given. Finally, the evolution from a qualitative to a quantitative test is described, FE modelling is discussed and examples of results are given.

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    Peter Davies, Benoît Bigourdan, Dominique Choqueuse, Nicolas Lacotte & Bertrand Forest

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Davies, P., Bigourdan, B., Choqueuse, D., Lacotte, N., Forest, B. (2013). Development of a Test to Simulate Wave Impact on Composite Sandwich Marine Structures. In: Abrate, S., Castanié, B., Rajapakse, Y. (eds) Dynamic Failure of Composite and Sandwich Structures. Solid Mechanics and Its Applications, vol 192. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5329-7_5

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