Response of Metallic Foam Core Sandwich Panels under Impact and Blast Loadings

车辆碰撞、恐怖袭击或海啸等人为或自然灾害的发生会带来灾难性后果，包括重大生命损失和可观的经济损失。例如，2002年澳大利亚有1700多人死于车祸。研究用于车辆、建筑物和其他人造结构的新材料、复合材料和新型复合结构，以评估其在极端或灾难性条件下的性能。该项目将研究具有蜂窝芯结构的夹层板在高冲击或爆炸载荷条件下的性能。研究结果将直接适用于军用和民用车辆和航空航天工业部件的结构设计，以减轻极端条件下的冲击或爆炸载荷水平。

Human or natural disasters such as vehicle crashes, terrorist attacks or tsunami take place with catastrophic consequences, including significant loss of life and considerable financial losses. For example, in Australia in 2002 over 1,700 people died as a result of vehicle crashes. Research on new materials composites and novel composite structures for use in vehicles, buildings and other man-made structures will be undertaken to evaluate their performance under extreme or disastrous conditions. This project will investigate the performance of sandwich panels with a cellular core structure under high impact or blast loading conditions. The findings will be directly applicable to structural design of military and civil vehicles and components for the aerospace industry in order to mitigate the level of impact or blast loading under extreme conditions.