Static and dynamic crushing of novel porous crochet-sintered metal and its filled composite tube

Wu, Fei; Liu, Tao; Xiao, Xiaoting; Zhang, Zhengrong; Hou, Junliang

Abstract

© 2018 Elsevier Ltd A novel porous crochet-sintered metal (PCSM) is fabricated by rolling a crocheted porous cloth and subsequent vacuum sintering using a continual single super-fine soft 304 rope twisted by 49 fibers as raw material. This work investigates the quasi-static and dynamic axial crushing response of PCSMs and their filled composite tubes. The pore structures of PCSMs are formed by inter-crocheted and multiple inter-locked rope skeletons and metallurgical bonds. The PCSMs have almost no initial impact effects with a high crushing force efficiency. Filling the PCSMs changes the deformation model of 6063 tube, improves the static crashworthiness parameters of 6063 tube by 8–25% with almost no increasing initial impact effect, and doesn't always play a positive role in dynamic absorption. Porosity has obvious influence on the quasi-static and dynamic behavior and crashworthiness of PCSMs and their filled composite tube, and the effect of porosity on dynamic crashworthiness of composite tube is greater than that on quasi-static crashworthiness of composite tube. The PCSMs and their composite tubes show great potential for application in energy absorbers. The method of filling PCSM into bare tube is possible to improve the energy absorption ability of thin-walled tube with almost no increase in the initial peak force.

Citation

Wu, F., Liu, T., Xiao, X., Zhang, Z., & Hou, J. (2019). Static and dynamic crushing of novel porous crochet-sintered metal and its filled composite tube. Composite Structures, 209, 830-843. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compstruct.2018.11.022

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Nov 6, 2018
• Online Publication Date: Nov 8, 2018
• Publication Date: Feb 1, 2019
• Deposit Date: Jan 28, 2019
• Publicly Available Date: Nov 9, 2019
• Journal: Composite Structures
• Print ISSN: 0263-8223
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 209
• Pages: 830-843
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compstruct.2018.11.022
• Keywords: Civil and Structural Engineering; Ceramics and Composites
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1432438
• Publisher URL: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0263822318316003?via%3Dihub
• Additional Information: 12 mo. embargo. OL 29.01.2019