1. Ship structure steel plate failure under near-field air-blast loading: Numerical simulations vs experiment
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Patrice Longère, André Dragon, Bruno Leblé, Anne-Gaëlle Geffroy-Grèze, Institut Clément Ader (ICA), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées - Toulouse (INSA Toulouse), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-IMT École nationale supérieure des Mines d'Albi-Carmaux (IMT Mines Albi), Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] (IMT)-Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] (IMT)-Institut Supérieur de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace (ISAE-SUPAERO), DCNS, Institut Pprime (PPRIME), ENSMA-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Poitiers, Institut Supérieur de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace (ISAE-SUPAERO)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées - Toulouse (INSA Toulouse), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-IMT École nationale supérieure des Mines d'Albi-Carmaux (IMT Mines Albi), Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] (IMT)-Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] (IMT), and Université de Poitiers-ENSMA-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
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Engineering ,Explosive material ,Constitutive equation ,Structural failure ,Structure (category theory) ,Aerospace Engineering ,020101 civil engineering ,Ocean Engineering ,Near and far field ,02 engineering and technology ,0201 civil engineering ,law.invention ,[SPI]Engineering Sciences [physics] ,0203 mechanical engineering ,law ,Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality ,ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS ,Civil and Structural Engineering ,Computer simulation ,business.industry ,Mechanical Engineering ,Structural engineering ,020303 mechanical engineering & transports ,Mechanics of Materials ,Automotive Engineering ,Hourglass ,business ,Air blast - Abstract
This paper deals with the numerical simulation of the dynamic failure of a ship structure steel plate under near-field air-blast loading. Various energetic levels of air-blast loading, involving variable explosive mass and charge-plate distance, were tested leading to the bulge of the loaded plate for the lowest energy level and to the failure of the loaded plate for the highest level. A modified version of the Gurson–Tvergaard–Needleman potential was used to reproduce the response of the material along the damage-plasticity process at stake. The 3D constitutive equations were implemented as user material in the engineering finite element computation code ABAQUS ® , and numerical simulations were conducted and compared with experiments considering air-blast loaded plates. Several crucial numerical issues are addressed concerning notably the use of ABAQUS ® conwep function, the hourglass control and the influence of the model constants. Numerical results clearly show the interest of the adopted modelling for the description of salient stages of dynamic structural failure.
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- 2013