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A new manufacturing technology is being employed to build a new type of armored vehicle. While thick panels are welded together in the old manufacturing technology, relatively thin panels are welded to a frame structure in the new manufacturing technology. The structural integrity of the new type of armor vehicles can be maintained mainly by the frame structures while the panel thickness is reduced significantly to reduce the total vehicle weight. Since the dynamic characteristics of a frame-panel hybrid structure are different from those of the old type of structure which consists of only thick panels, they should be identified to achieve a good performance of the vehicle. For this purpose, a proper FE model of the hybrid type of structure needs to be developed. In the present study, FE models are proposed to represent the frame-panel hybrid type structure efficiently. The impact energy propagation, the transient response and the modal characteristics are investigated with the FE models.
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Hong-Hee Yoo received a B.S. and M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Seoul National University in 1980 and 1982. He then went on to receive his Ph.D. degree from Michigan State University in 1989. Dr. Yoo is currently a Professor at the School of Mechanical Engineering at Hanyang University in Seoul, Korea. His research interests are in the area of Flexible body dynamics, vibration.
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Koo, M.H., Lim, H.S., Gimm, H.I. et al. Study of impact energy propagation phenomenon and modal characteristics of an armored vehicle undergoing high velocity impact. J Mech Sci Technol 23, 964–967 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12206-009-0322-7
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12206-009-0322-7