Modeling the Impact Response of HDPE Fuel Tank Material

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xinran Xiao ◽  
Vinayshankar Virupaksha
Keyword(s):  
Deformation Behavior ◽  
High Density Polyethylene ◽  
Method Development ◽  
Fuel Tank ◽  
Impact Response ◽  
Lateral Impact ◽  
Three Point Bending ◽  
Deformation And Fracture ◽  
Fracture Behaviors ◽  
The Impact

As a part of the effort on modeling method development for crashworthiness prediction of vehicle structures, this paper examines the impact response of a multilayer high density polyethylene (HDPE) fuel tank material. The deformation behavior of HDPE under lateral impact was investigated by flexural experiment using three-point bending, and by driven dart impact with different velocities at ambient and −40°C. The large deformation and fracture behaviors of multilayer HDPE under impact loading at different rates and temperatures were simulated using LS-DYNA®.

Effect of Deflection Rate on Bending Deformation Behavior of Fe-Based Shape Memory Alloy

2014 ◽  
Vol 566 ◽  
pp. 116-121
Author(s):  
Keizo Nishikori ◽  
Takeshi Iwamoto
Keyword(s):  
Shape Memory ◽  
Static Loading ◽  
Deformation Behavior ◽  
Rate Sensitivity ◽  
Bending Test ◽  
Bending Deformation ◽  
Three Point Bending ◽  
Positive Rate ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Deflection Rate

In this study, three-point bending test is conducted at various deformation rate by using a thin plate of Fe-based alloy. The rate sensitivity of its bending deformation during loading and shape memory effect by heating after unloading are investigated experimentally. The results obtained are summarized as bellows. (1) In the case where the quasi-static loading was applied, the positive rate sensitivity, which means the stress level increases with increasing the deflection rate, can be observed slightly. (2) It is hard to observe that recovery of deflection by SME depends on deflection rate under quasi-static loading. (3) In the case where the impact loading was applied, the positive rate sensitivity can be observed clearly.

scholarly journals Fuel Tank Integrity Research: Fuel Tank Analyses and Test Plans

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karina Jacobsen ◽  
Patricia Llana ◽  
Michael Carolan ◽  
Laura Sullivan
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Loading ◽  
Deformation Behavior ◽  
Impact Testing ◽  
Fuel Tank ◽  
Loading Conditions ◽  
Dynamic Impact ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Blunt Impact ◽  
Fuel Tanks ◽  
The Impact

The Federal Railroad Administration’s Office of Research and Development is conducting research into fuel tank crashworthiness. Fuel tank research is being performed to determine strategies for increasing the fuel tank impact resistance to mitigate the threat of a post-collision or post-derailment fire. In accidents, fuel tanks are subjected to dynamic loading, often including a blunt or raking impact from various components of the rolling stock or trackbed. Current design practice requires that fuel tanks have minimum properties adequate to sustain a prescribed set of static load conditions. Current research is intended to increase understanding of the impact response of fuel tanks under dynamic loading. Utilizing an approach that has been effective in increasing the structural crashworthiness of railcars, improved strategies can be developed that will address the types of loading conditions which have been observed to occur in a collision or derailment event. U.S. rail accident surveys reveal the types of threats fuel tanks are exposed to during collision, derailments and other events. These include both blunt impacts and raking impacts to any exposed side of the tank. This research focuses on evaluating dynamic impact conditions for fuel tanks and investigating how fuel tank design features affect the collision performance of the tank. Research activities will include analytical modeling of fuel tanks under dynamic loading conditions, dynamic impact testing of fuel tank articles, and recommendations for improved fuel tank protection strategies. This paper describes detailed finite element analyses that have been developed to estimate the behavior of three different fuel tanks under a blunt impact. These analyses are being used to understand the deformation behavior of different tanks and prepare for planned testing of two of these tanks. Observations are made on the influence of stiffeners, baffles, and other design details relative to the distance from impact. This paper subsequently describes the preliminary test plans for the first set of tests on conventional passenger locomotive fuel tanks. The first set of tests is designed to measure the deformation behavior of the fuel tanks with a blunt impact of the bottom face of the tanks. The test articles are fuel tanks from two retired EMD F-40 locomotives. A blunt impact will be conducted by securing the test articles to a crash wall and impacting them with an indenter extending from a test cart. This set of tests is targeted for late summer 2013 at the Transportation Technology Center (TTC) in Pueblo, Colorado. Both blunt and raking impact conditions will be evaluated in future research. Tests are also being planned for DMU fuel tanks under dynamic loads.

A Study of Impact Response of Composite Pipe

1991 ◽  
Vol 113 (3) ◽  
pp. 182-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. S. Pang ◽  
A. A. Kailasam
Keyword(s):  
Glass Fiber ◽  
Method Development ◽  
Damage Zone ◽  
Test Method ◽  
Impact Response ◽  
Low Velocity Impact ◽  
Low Velocity ◽  
Velocity Impact ◽  
Composite Pipe ◽  
The Impact

The objective of this study was to gain a better understanding of the low-velocity impact phenomena of composite pipe. The focus was on test method development, and material and damage characterization. A drop weight tower tester was designed in this investigation. The dynamic tests were conducted using three different impactor geometries, velocities, and masses. It was found that the damage was localized and on the outer surface of the pipe in the case of the conical and wedge tip impactors. On the other hand, the damage zone was larger than the impact zone for the hemispherical impactor, and cracks were first seen within the inner surface of the pipe. This implies that the hemispherical tip impactor caused more damage to the pipe than the conical or wedge tips. The energy absorbed slightly increased with an increase in velocity or in mass. The contact period for the conical impactor was the longest. The velocity and mass of the impactor had only a slight effect on that period. The wedge impactor generated the largest peak force. The energy absorbed by the two composite pipes under low-velocity impact was studied. The specimen-1, Derakane 411-45 resin with less glass fiber, seemed to absorb more energy compared to the specimen-2, Derakane 470-36 resin with more glass fiber. In addition, the specimen-2 exhibited a slightly higher maximum impact force. Therefore, impact response is sensitive to fiber content.

DEFORMATION BEHAVIOR OF POLYMERIC MATERIALS BY TAYLOR IMPACT

2008 ◽  
Vol 22 (09n11) ◽  
pp. 1235-1242 ◽  
Author(s):  
HYUNG-SEOP SHIN ◽  
SUNG-TAEK PARK ◽  
SEE-JO KIM ◽  
JOON-HONG CHOI ◽  
JEONG-TAE KIM
Keyword(s):  
Strain Rate ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Polymeric Materials ◽  
High Speed Photography ◽  
Air Gun ◽  
Deformation And Fracture ◽  
Governing Factor ◽  
Fracture Behaviors ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Impact Experiments

The deformation of polymers under high loading-rate conditions will be a governing factor to be considered in their impact-resistant applications such as protective shields and armors. In this study, the deformation and fracture behaviors of polymeric materials such as PE, PC and PEEK have been investigated by Taylor cylinder impact tests with the high speed photography. A 20 mm air gun was used to perform the impact experiments. Cylindrical projectiles have been impacted onto a hardened steel anvil at a velocity ranging from 120 to 320 m/s. After impact experiments, the shape of projectiles was examined and compared with high speed photographic images to distinguish the elastic deformation component from the deformation measured instantaneously. Each adopted material showed different deformation and fracture behaviors. As compared with the quasi-static cases all polymers showed a significant strain rate hardening when the strain rate used was over 6 × 103 s −1. This appeared most significant in PE.

Deformation and fracture behavior of an Al-Li-Cu-Mg-Zr alloy 8090

1990 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 974-975
Author(s):  
D.M. Jiang ◽  
B.D. Hong
Keyword(s):  
High Strength ◽  
Deformation And Fracture ◽  
Fracture Behaviors ◽  
Aluminum Lithium ◽  
Carbon Fiber Reinforced Composites ◽  
Peak Aged ◽  
Aluminum Lithium Alloys ◽  
High Strength Aluminum Alloys ◽  
Lithium Alloys ◽  
Zr Alloy

Aluminum-lithium alloys have been recently got strong interests especially in the aircraft industry. Compared to conventional high strength aluminum alloys of the 2000 or 7000 series it is anticipated that these alloys offer a 10% increase in the stiffness and a 10% decrease in density, thus making them rather competitive to new up-coming non-metallic materials like carbon fiber reinforced composites.The object of the present paper is to evaluate the inluence of various microstructural features on the monotonic and cyclic deformation and fracture behaviors of Al-Li based alloy. The material used was 8090 alloy. After solution treated and waster quenched, the alloy was underaged (190°Clh), peak-aged (190°C24h) and overaged (150°C4h+230°C16h). The alloy in different aging condition was tensile and fatigue tested, the resultant fractures were observed in SEM. The deformation behavior was studied in TEM.

Influence of Ply Stacking Sequences on the Impact Response of Carbon Fibre Reinforced Polymer Composite Laminates

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristian Gjerrestad Andersen ◽  
Gbanaibolou Jombo ◽  
Sikiru Oluwarotimi Ismail ◽  
Segun Adeyemi ◽  
Rajini N ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Fibre ◽  
Polymer Composite ◽  
Composite Laminates ◽  
Impact Response ◽  
Reinforced Polymer ◽  
Carbon Fibre Reinforced Polymer ◽  
Fibre Reinforced Polymer ◽  
The Impact

Evaluation of the Aging Behavior of High Density Polyethylene in Thermal Oxidative Environment by Principal Component Analysis

2017 ◽  
Vol 727 ◽  
pp. 447-449 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jun Dai ◽  
Hua Yan ◽  
Jian Jian Yang ◽  
Jun Jun Guo
Keyword(s):  
Principal Component Analysis ◽  
Impact Strength ◽  
High Density Polyethylene ◽  
Tensile Modulus ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Component Analysis ◽  
High Density ◽  
Aging Behavior ◽  
Data Set ◽  
The Impact

To evaluate the aging behavior of high density polyethylene (HDPE) under an artificial accelerated environment, principal component analysis (PCA) was used to establish a non-dimensional expression Z from a data set of multiple degradation parameters of HDPE. In this study, HDPE samples were exposed to the accelerated thermal oxidative environment for different time intervals up to 64 days. The results showed that the combined evaluating parameter Z was characterized by three-stage changes. The combined evaluating parameter Z increased quickly in the first 16 days of exposure and then leveled off. After 40 days, it began to increase again. Among the 10 degradation parameters, branching degree, carbonyl index and hydroxyl index are strongly associated. The tensile modulus is highly correlated with the impact strength. The tensile strength, tensile modulus and impact strength are negatively correlated with the crystallinity.

scholarly journals Viscous-like forces control the impact response of shear-thickening dense suspensions

2021 ◽  
Vol 923 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc-Andre Brassard ◽  
Neil Causley ◽  
Nasser Krizou ◽  
Joshua A. Dijksman ◽  
Abram. H. Clark
Keyword(s):  
Shear Thickening ◽  
Impact Response ◽  
Dense Suspensions ◽  
The Impact

Abstract

Static and dynamic response of sandwich beams with lattice and pantographic cores

2021 ◽  
pp. 109963622110338
Author(s):  
Yury Solyaev ◽  
Arseniy Babaytsev ◽  
Anastasia Ustenko ◽  
Andrey Ripetskiy ◽  
Alexander Volkov
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Performance ◽  
Lattice Structure ◽  
Unit Length ◽  
Experimental Tests ◽  
Plane Geometry ◽  
Sandwich Beams ◽  
Static Tests ◽  
Three Point Bending ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Impact

Mechanical performance of 3d-printed polyamide sandwich beams with different type of the lattice cores is investigated. Four variants of the beams are considered, which differ in the type of connections between the elements in the lattice structure of the core. We consider the pantographic-type lattices formed by the two families of inclined beams placed with small offset and connected by stiff joints (variant 1), by hinges (variant 2) and made without joints (variant 3). The fourth type of the core has the standard plane geometry formed by the intersected beams lying in the same plane (variant 4). Experimental tests were performed for the localized indentation loading according to the three-point bending scheme with small span-to-thickness ratio. From the experiments we found that the plane geometry of variant 4 has the highest rigidity and the highest load bearing capacity in the static tests. However, other three variants of the pantographic-type cores (1–3) demonstrate the better performance under the impact loading. The impact strength of such structures are in 3.5–5 times higher than those one of variant 4 with almost the same mass per unit length. This result is validated by using numerical simulations and explained by the decrease of the stress concentration and the stress state triaxiality and also by the delocalization effects that arise in the pantographic-type cores.

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