- Crashworthiness and composite materials: development of an experimental test method for the energy absorption determination and implementation of the relative numerical model
- Garattoni, Francesca <1981>
Subject
- ING-IND/04 Costruzioni e strutture aerospaziali
Description
- In this PhD thesis the crashworthiness topic is studied with the perspective of the development of a small-scale experimental test able to characterize a material in terms of energy absorption. The material properties obtained are then used to validate a nu- merical model of the experimental test itself. Consequently, the numerical model, calibrated on the specific ma- terial, can be extended to more complex structures and used to simulate their energy absorption behavior. The experimental activity started at University of Washington in Seattle, WA (USA) and continued at Second Faculty of Engi- neering, University of Bologna, Forl`ı (Italy), where the numerical model for the simulation of the experimental test was implemented and optimized.
Date
- 2011-05-02
Type
- Doctoral Thesis
- PeerReviewed
Format
- application/pdf
Identifier
urn:nbn:it:unibo-2382
Garattoni, Francesca (2011) Crashworthiness and composite materials: development of an experimental test method for the energy absorption determination and implementation of the relative numerical model, [Dissertation thesis], Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna. Dottorato di ricerca in Meccanica e scienze avanzate dell'ingegneria: progetto n. 1 "Disegno e metodi dell’ingegneria industriale e scienze aerospaziali"