Fracture and Structural Integrity e-ISSN 1971-8993 Open access
Impact & Dynamics Vol. 15, No. 55 (2021)

An innovative fixture for testing the crashworthiness of composite materials

Author and affiliation details
  • Lorenzo Vigna Corresponding author Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, Italy ORCID iD0000-0002-5913-253X lorenzo_vigna@polito.it
  • Iman Babaei Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, Italy ORCID iD0000-0002-6471-5094
  • Ravin Garg Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
  • Giovanni Belingardi Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, Italy ORCID iD0000-0003-1378-1902
  • Davide Salvatore Paolino Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
  • Andrea Calzolari ITW Test and Measurement Italy
  • Giuseppe Galizia ITW Test and Measurement Italy
DOI
10.3221/IGF-ESIS.55.06
Pages
76-87
Published
Licence
CC BY 4.0
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Abstract

Despite the growing diffusion of composite materials in automotive and aerospace sectors, a standard procedure for testing their crashworthiness has not been developed yet. At present, the international standards for testing composite materials under impact conditions are not adequate to test their crush behavior.

In this paper, a procedure for measuring the energy absorption due to the compressive crushing of a composite flat specimen, along its mid plane, is proposed. The experimental setup requires a fixture to hold the specimen and to avoid its buckling and an instrumented drop weight tower to obtain the force-displacement curves with the aim of calculating the Specific Energy Absorption.

The paper will describe the adopted test procedure and some of the features of the newly developed experimental setup. The effectiveness of the procedure is demonstrated by testing several glass fiber-epoxy specimens under different impact energies.

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Article history

  1. ReceivedUntil the next stage: 41 days
  2. RevisedUntil the next stage: 0 days
  3. AcceptedUntil the next stage: 60 days
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How to cite

APA

Vigna, L., Babaei, I., Garg, R., Belingardi, G., Paolino, D. S., Calzolari, A., & Galizia, G. (2020). An innovative fixture for testing the crashworthiness of composite materials. Fracture and Structural Integrity, 15(55), 76–87. https://doi.org/10.3221/IGF-ESIS.55.06

IEEE

L. Vigna et al., “An innovative fixture for testing the crashworthiness of composite materials,” Fracture and Structural Integrity, vol. 15, no. 55, pp. 76–87, 2020, doi: 10.3221/IGF-ESIS.55.06.

MLA

Vigna, Lorenzo, et al. “An innovative fixture for testing the crashworthiness of composite materials.” Fracture and Structural Integrity, vol. 15, no. 55, 2020, pp. 76–87. https://doi.org/10.3221/IGF-ESIS.55.06.

Chicago

Vigna, Lorenzo, Iman Babaei, Ravin Garg, Giovanni Belingardi, Davide Salvatore Paolino, Andrea Calzolari, and Giuseppe Galizia. 2020. “An innovative fixture for testing the crashworthiness of composite materials.” Fracture and Structural Integrity 15 (55): 76–87. https://doi.org/10.3221/IGF-ESIS.55.06.

Harvard

Vigna, L., Babaei, I., Garg, R., Belingardi, G., Paolino, D.S., Calzolari, A. and Galizia, G. (2020) ‘An innovative fixture for testing the crashworthiness of composite materials’, Fracture and Structural Integrity, 15(55), pp. 76–87. doi: 10.3221/IGF-ESIS.55.06.

Vancouver

Vigna L, Babaei I, Garg R, Belingardi G, Paolino DS, Calzolari A, et al. An innovative fixture for testing the crashworthiness of composite materials. Fracture and Structural Integrity. 2020;15(55):76-87. doi:10.3221/IGF-ESIS.55.06

BibTeX

@article{vigna2020, author = {Vigna, Lorenzo and Babaei, Iman and Garg, Ravin and Belingardi, Giovanni and Paolino, Davide Salvatore and Calzolari, Andrea and Galizia, Giuseppe}, title = {An innovative fixture for testing the crashworthiness of composite materials}, journal = {Fracture and Structural Integrity}, year = {2020}, volume = {15}, number = {55}, pages = {76--87}, doi = {10.3221/IGF-ESIS.55.06}, url = {https://doi.org/10.3221/IGF-ESIS.55.06}, issn = {1971-8993} }

RIS

TY - JOUR AU - Vigna, Lorenzo AU - Babaei, Iman AU - Garg, Ravin AU - Belingardi, Giovanni AU - Paolino, Davide Salvatore AU - Calzolari, Andrea AU - Galizia, Giuseppe TI - An innovative fixture for testing the crashworthiness of composite materials JO - Fracture and Structural Integrity T2 - Fracture and Structural Integrity PY - 2020 DA - 2020/12/28 VL - 15 IS - 55 SP - 76 EP - 87 DO - 10.3221/IGF-ESIS.55.06 UR - https://doi.org/10.3221/IGF-ESIS.55.06 SN - 1971-8993 ER -

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May be shared and adapted, provided appropriate credit is given. Copyright © 2020 Lorenzo Vigna, Iman Babaei, Ravin Garg, Giovanni Belingardi, Davide Salvatore Paolino, Andrea Calzolari, Giuseppe Galizia.

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