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Repeated impact response of bio-inspired sandwich beam with arched and honeycomb bilayer core

  • Ahmad B.H. Kueh (Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak) ;
  • Juin-Hwee Tan (Goodhart Land Sdn. Bhd.) ;
  • Shukur Abu Hassan (Centre for Advanced Composite Materials (CACM), School of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia) ;
  • Mat Uzir Wahit (School of Chemical and Energy Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia)
  • Received : 2021.12.27
  • Accepted : 2023.02.21
  • Published : 2023.03.25
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Abstract

The article examines the impact response of the sandwich beam furnished by a novel bilayer core as inspired by the woodpecker's head architecture under different repeatedly exerted low-velocity impact loadings by employing the finite element package, ABAQUS. The sandwich beam forms four essential parts comprising bottom and top carbon fiber reinforced polymer laminates encasing bilayer core made of laterally arched solid hot melt adhesive material and aluminum honeycomb. Impact loadings are implemented repeatedly with a steel hemisphere impactor for various impact energies, 7.28 J, 9.74 J, and 12.63 J. Essentially, the commonly concentrated stresses at the impact region are regulated away by the arched core in all considered cases thus reducing the threat of failure. The sandwich beam can resist up to 5 continual impacts at 7.28 J and 9.74 J but only up to 3 times repeated loads at 12.63 J before visible failure is noticed. In the examination of several key impact performance indicators under numerous loading cases, the proposed beam demonstrates favorably up to 1.3-11.2 higher impact resistance efficacies compared to existing designs, therefore displaying an improvement in repeated impact resistance of the new design.

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Acknowledgement

The authors thank Universiti Teknologi Malaysia and Universiti Malaysia Sarawak for funding the researchunder the Collaborative Research Grant (CRG) UTM-National initiative (grant number: GL/F02/CRGUTM/02/2020).

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