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Citation

Gupta NK, Velmurugan R. Int. J. Crashworthiness 2000; 5(3): 333-344.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2000, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

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Abstract

Round cylindrical and conical shells made of short randomly oriented glass fibre mats with polyester resin and tubes made of 0190 continuous glass fiber mats with epoxy resin were subjected to axial compression in an Instron machine. The different failure modes of these shells and their energy absorbing characteristics were studied. Based on the experimental observations, an analytical procedure is established to predict the post collapse load-compression characteristics of the composite shells. Analytical expressions were obtained to predict the average crush stress and the crush length in a crush cycle for the composite conical shells as well as for the cylindrical tubes. The results thus obtained were compared with the experimental values as well as with the results available from the literature. Good agreement is found.

Language: en

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