Impact Response of Monolithic and Laminated Polycarbonate Panels: An Experimental and Numerical Investigation
Navid Ghavanini, Antonio Maria Caporale, Paolo Astori, Alessandro Airoldi, Paolo Panichelli, Andrea Spagnoli, Michele Terzano, Dan Ioan Stoia, Mattia Pancrazio Cosma · 2023
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Description
Navid Ghavanini and co-authors test how polycarbonate sheets, single and laminated, stand up to hard impacts for racing windshields. A windshield must swallow strikes without spraying shards into the cockpit. Lab hits and computer models together can map the safe design space faster than track trials.
Drop towers cover slow hits and a gas gun covers fast ones, both with a sharp-edged striker on flat panels. The team logs failure styles, the speed needed to punch through, and how energy gets absorbed. A three-dimensional model, tuned with heat- and rate-aware material laws, plays the same hits in silico. Glue layer modeling handles the laminated build. The model catches failure modes and punch-through speeds with fair accuracy. Heat-softening under fast strain proves central to honest simulation.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Navid Ghavanini, Antonio Maria Caporale, Paolo Astori, Alessandro Airoldi, Paolo Panichelli, Andrea Spagnoli, Michele Terzano, Dan Ioan Stoia, Mattia Pancrazio Cosma |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 56 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |