Strain Rate Dependent Foam - Constituitive Modeling and Applications

Omar Faruque; Nengquan (Nick) Liu; Clifford C. Chou

doi:10.4271/971076

1997-02-24

Strain Rate Dependent Foam - Constituitive Modeling and Applications 971076

Many foams exhibit significant strain rate dependency in their mechanical responses. To characterize these foams, a strain rate dependent constitutive model is formulated and implemented in an explicit dynamic finite element code developed at FORD. The constitutive model is developed in conjunction with a Lagrangian eight node solid element with twenty four degrees of freedom. The constitutive model has been used to model foams in a number crash analysis problems. Results obtained from the analyses are compared to the experimental data. Evidently, numerical results show excellent agreement with the experimental data.

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