Over the past few decades, there has been a constant pursuit for lightweight and high-
performance energy absorption structures and materials in automobiles, trains, ships …

Polymeric foams have found their way into different industry sectors due to their excellent
thermal and mechanical properties. Polymeric foams might undergo large deformation at …

Glass-fiber reinforced polypropylene (PP) and polybutene-1 (PB-1) materials were
investigated in a high-speed tensile test. The glass-fiber content of the materials and the …

Shape memory polymer foams have significant potential in biomedical and aerospace
applications, but their thermo-mechanical behavior under relevant deformation conditions is …

An enhanced non-local failure criterion for laminated safety glass under low velocity impact
for explicit finite element simulations with element erosion is presented. Hereby, the fracture …

A constitutive model for thermoplastics is described, which allows for hyperelastic-
viscoplastic response due to intermolecular resistance and entropic hyperelastic response …

In the present work the plastic deformation of a thin rectangular polycarbonate armor plate
subjected to single and multiple impacts was investigated in detail. The impacts were …

A full understanding of the non-linear mechanical response of the polymer is essential for
fibre-reinforced polymer composite design because an explicit definition of constitutive …

Nonperforating ballistic impacts on thoracic armor can cause blunt injuries, known as behind-
armor blunt trauma (BABT). To evaluate the potential for this injury, the back face …

The numerical simulation of structural parts made from plastics is becoming increasingly
important nowadays. The fact that almost any structural requirement can be combined in a …