Comparison study of the in-plane crushing failure behavior of traditional and arc-curved hexagonal honeycomb

Abstract

The honeycomb structures have been widely adopted as the aerospace engineering for the impact dynamic performance. To reveal the in-plane crushing behavior and improve the energy absorption ability, the influence of typical honeycomb structure is studied under different impact velocity and wall thickness. The deformation behavior of arc-curved hexagonal honeycomb with in-plane impact is researched. Results show that three typical deformation model including I, V and X shape are exhibited for traditional and arc-curved types. The deformation model would transfer from X to I shape with the increasing of impact velocity, and the impact load would be more unstable. With the increasing of central angle of arc-curved hexagonal honeycomb, the global deformation occurs instead of local deformation including X and V model, and stronger energy absorption ability is exhibited for the larger angle.

Keywords

• honeycomb
• crushing behavior
• energy absorption
• crashworthiness
• structural deformation