Ballistic impact and virtual testing of woven FRP laminates

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dc.contributor.authorGiannopoulos, Ioannis K.
dc.contributor.authorYasaee, Mehdi
dc.contributor.authorMaropakis, Nikolaos
dc.date.accessioned2021-05-06T13:48:32Z
dc.date.available2021-05-06T13:48:32Z
dc.date.issued2021-04-22
dc.description.abstractThe aim of the work was to investigate the numerical simulations correlation with the experimental behaviour of steel ball high velocity impact onto a 2 × 2 twill woven carbon composite laminate. The experimental set up consisted of a pressurised gas-gun able to shot steel ball projectiles onto two different composite plate layup configurations of plates made of the same composite material fabric. Subsequently, the experiments were replicated using the LSDYNA explicit finite element analysis software package. Progressive failure numerical models of two different fidelity levels were constructed. The higher fidelity model was simulating each of the plys of the composite panels separately, tied together using cohesive zone modelling properties. The lower fidelity model consisted of a single layer plate with artificial integration points for each ply. The simulation results came out to be in satisfactory agreement with the experimental ones. While the delamination extent was moderately under predicted by the higher fidelity model, the general behaviour was complying with the experimental results. The lower fidelity model was consistent in representing the damage of the panel during the impact and better predicted the impactor residual velocities due to the better matching of the pane stiffness. Despite the competency of the higher fidelity model to capture the damage of the laminate in a more detailed level, the computational cost was 80% higher than the lower fidelity case, which rendered that model impractical against the lower fidelity one, to use in larger models representing more substantial or more complex structures.en_UK
dc.identifier.citationGiannopoulos IK, Yasaee M, Maropakis N. (2021) Ballistic impact and virtual testing of woven FRP laminates. Journal of Composites Science, Volume 5, Issue 5, May 2021, Article number 115en_UK
dc.identifier.issn2504-477X
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.3390/jcs5050115
dc.identifier.urihttps://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/16653
dc.language.isoenen_UK
dc.publisherMDPIen_UK
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/*
dc.subjectdamage mechanicsen_UK
dc.subjectcomputational modellingen_UK
dc.subjectimpact behaviouren_UK
dc.titleBallistic impact and virtual testing of woven FRP laminatesen_UK
dc.typeArticleen_UK

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