Composite Materials for Advanced Global Mobility Concepts

Abstract

A model of graphitic foams was converted to finite-element meshes for subsequent mechanical and processing analysis. The model is based on spherical bubbles growing at the vertices of a tetrahedron and the faces of the tetrahedron forming the midplane of the struts. The in-house effort was required because the state-of-the-art commercial software packages for finite-element mesh generation were found to be inadequate to handle the complex geometry of the growing foam morphology.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 2000
Accession Number
ADA387128

Entities

People

  • D. P. Anderson
  • K. K. Han

Organizations

  • University of Dayton

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Air Force
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Composite Materials
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Computer Programs
  • Demographic Cohorts
  • Geometry
  • Government Procurement
  • Governments
  • Graphitic Materials
  • Materials
  • Mechanical Properties
  • Military Research
  • Mobility
  • Three Dimensional
  • Universities

Readers

  • Graph Algorithms and Convex Optimization.
  • Reinforced Composite Materials
  • Structural Dynamics.