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    Development of a Morphing Skin Based on the Honeycomb Reinforced Elastomer

    C. Wang1, J.H. Qiu1,2, R. Nie1, H.L. Ji1, W. Deng1

    CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.32, No.1, pp. 61-80, 2012, DOI:10.3970/cmc.2012.032.061

    Abstract The morphing skin has been a main obstacle in the real-world implementation of morphing aircrafts. This paper presents a morphing skin made of the elastomer reinforced by the honeycomb structure. A matrix made from elastomer provides possibilities to configure the morphing skin and the honeycomb structure with smaller in-plane modulus and larger out-of-plane modulus is thought to be suitable to reinforce the elastomer. The polyurethane elastomer is selected and synthesized by the casting method with the prepolymer approach, after which a tensile test is conducted to get its stress-strain relationship. To decrease the skin depth and diminish the local deformation… More >

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    Buckling of Honeycomb Sandwiches: Periodic Finite Element Considerations

    D. H. Pahr1, F.G. Rammerstorfer1

    CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.12, No.3, pp. 229-242, 2006, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2006.012.229

    Abstract Sandwich structures are efficient lightweight materials. Due to there design they exhibit very special failure modes such as global buckling, shear crimping, facesheet wrinkling, facesheet dimpling, and face/core yielding. The core of the sandwich is usually made of foams or cellular materials, e.g., honeycombs. Especially in the case of honeycomb cores the correlation between analytical buckling predictions and experiments might be poor (Ley, Lin, and Uy (1999)). The reason for this lies in the fact that analytical formulae typically assume a homogeneous core (continuous support of the facesheets). This work highlights problems of honeycomb core sandwiches in a parameter regime,… More >

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    Non-uniform Hardening Constitutive Model for Compressible Orthotropic Materials with Application to Sandwich Plate Cores

    Zhenyu Xue1, Ashkan Vaziri1, John W. Hutchinson1

    CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.10, No.1, pp. 79-96, 2005, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2005.010.079

    Abstract A constitutive model for the elastic-plastic behavior of plastically compressible orthotropic materials is proposed based on an ellipsoidal yield surface with evolving ellipticity to accommodate non-uniform hardening or softening associated with stressing in different directions. The model incorporates rate-dependence arising from material rate-dependence and micro-inertial effects. The basic inputs are the stress-strain responses under the six fundamental stress histories in the orthotropic axes. Special limits of the model include classical isotropic hardening theory, the Hill model for incompressible orthotropic solids, and the Deshpande-Fleck model for highly porous isotropic foam metals. A primary motivation is application to metal core structure in… More >

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    Finite Element modeling of Nomex® honeycomb cores : Failure and effective elastic properties

    L. Gornet1, S. Marguet2, G. Marckmann3

    CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.4, No.2, pp. 63-74, 2006, DOI:10.3970/cmc.2006.004.063

    Abstract The purpose of the present study is to determine the components of the effective elasticity tensor and the failure properties of Nomex® honeycomb cores. In order to carry out this study, the NidaCore software, a program dedicated to Nomex®Cores predictions, has been developed using the Finite Element tool Cast3M-CEA. This software is based on periodic homogenization techniques and on the modelling of structural instability phenomena. The homogenization of the periodic microstructure is realized thanks to a strain energy approach. It assumes the mechanical equivalence between the microstructures of a RVE and a similar homogeneous macroscopic volume. The key point of… More >

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    On the Homogenization Analysis of Electromagnetic Properties for Irregular Honeycombs

    Lianhua Ma1, Qingsheng Yang2

    CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.40, No.2, pp. 79-98, 2014, DOI:10.3970/cmc.2014.040.079

    Abstract Honeycombs are widely used in aerospace structures due to their low density and high specific strength. In this paper, effective electromagnetic properties of irregular honeycombs are investigated, by using the three dimensional homogenization theory and corresponding computational procedure. This homogenization method, being the extension of two-scale asymptotic approach, is employed to determine the expressions of the effective dielectric permittivity, magnetic permeability and electrical conductivity. To verify and validate the proposed model and procedure, effective permittivities of a typical irregular honeycomb are studied and compared with those of semi-empirical formulae. Moreover, the effect of geometry of honeycomb's unit cell on effective… More >

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