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Deformation Mechanisms of Closed Cell-Aluminium Foams During Drop Weight Impact

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The present study investigates the dynamic deformation mechanisms of closed-cell aluminium foams during low velocity drop weight impact with experimental analyses and finite element (FE) simulation. The evolution of foam collapse was explored with FE simulation using ABAQUS/Explicit. X-ray computed tomography (XRT) based geometry was reconstructed to understand the actual microstructural changes during impact. The experimental stress-strain response was compared with FE simulation with reasonably good agreement observed between FE prediction and experimental data. A vertical cross-sectional XRT slice was analysed at different strains from FE simulation to understand the pore collapse mechanisms.

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Acknowledgements

The authors gratefully acknowledge the laboratory facility provided by Department of Applied Mathematics, Australian National University. We also gratefully acknowledge the UNSW Canberra Defence Related Research Program that part-funded this work.

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  1. School of Engineering and Information Technology, The University of New South Wales, Canberra, Australia

    M. A. Kader, M. A. Islam, A. D. Brown, P. J. Hazell & J. P. Escobedo

  2. Department of Applied Mathematics, Australian National University (ANU), Canberra, Australia

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  1. Al Isra University , Amman, Jordan

    Shadia Ikhmayies

  2. Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan, USA

    Bowen Li

  3. Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA

    John S. Carpenter

  4. Canmet Materials , Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

    JIan Li

  5. Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan, USA

    Jiann-Yang Hwang

  6. Military Institute of Engineering, IME, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil

    Sergio Neves Monteiro

  7. Poltecnico di Torino , Turin, Italy

    Donato Firrao

  8. ArcelorMittal Global R&D, East Chicago, Indiana, USA

    Mingming Zhang

  9. Central South University , Changsha, China

    Zhiwei Peng

  10. University of New South Wales , Canberra, Australia

    Juan P. Escobedo-Diaz

  11. Chongqing University , Chongqing, China

    Chenguang Bai

  12. Middle East Technical University , Ankara, Turkey

    Yunus Eren Kalay

  13. Naval Research Laboratory , Washington, District of Columbia, USA

    Ramasis Goswami

  14. Korea Railroad Research Institute, Uiwang, Korea (Republic of)

    Jeongguk Kim

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Kader, M.A., Islam, M.A., Brown, A.D., Hazell, P.J., Saadatfar, M., Escobedo, J.P. (2017). Deformation Mechanisms of Closed Cell-Aluminium Foams During Drop Weight Impact. In: Ikhmayies, S., et al. Characterization of Minerals, Metals, and Materials 2017. The Minerals, Metals & Materials Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51382-9_26

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