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A New Homogenization Method for FEM Dynamic Simulation of Composite Sandwich Materials
Technical Paper
2008-08-0214
Sector:
Event:
JSAE Spring Meeting
Language:
English
Abstract
Although not yet widely diffused, composite sandwiches have
already made their first steps in the automotive industry for their
interesting stiffness-to-weight ratio, and material and processing
cost. While the efficient FE simulation of standard solid and fluid
materials in automotive applications is nowadays quite well
assessed, the FE simulation of composite honeycomb sandwich
structures still needs to be improved.
It is necessary to have a method compatible with standard FE
codes used in vehicle NVH development, and able to support the
design phase in a predictive way. In this paper a new methodology
fulfilling these needs is presented.