Energy storage and dissipation in polyurea composites

Polyurea composites have been of interest for a variety of engineering applications via their highly dissipative yet resilient behavior under deformation. Polyurea composites have been considered as a self-healing and anticorrosion coating in building applications, and more interestingly, as a lightweight addition to steel armor. In combination with a metal plate, a polyurea layer has been extensively studied under impact and blast loading. In this research, the tunable performance of polyurea sandwich armor composites is explored in modeling and experimentation. Cylindrical arrays comprised of polyurea, a resilient yet dissipative material, enable improved load transmission by utilizing new dissipation and storage pathways due to geometry. Experimentation and computational modeling are used to quantify the dissipation features of the polyurea composite. This research combines a new polyurea interlayer geometry with steel to improve the composite armor blast performance by increasing energy dissipation.

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering.

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2013

Author dc:creator

• Bodin, Carl (Carl Kenneth)

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Mary C. Boyce.

• Mechanical Engineering.

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• M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/81584

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oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/81584