Experimental and Numerical Investigations of the Effect of Impact Angle and Impactor Geometry on the High-Velocity Impact Response of Aluminum Honeycomb Structures

Subject Areas : Engineering

H Alikhani ¹ , S Derakhshan ² , H Khoramishad ³

1 - School of Mechanical Engineering, Iran University of Science & Technology (IUST), Narmak, Tehran 16846-13114, Iran
2 - School of Mechanical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
3 - School of Mechanical Engineering, Iran University of Science & Technology (IUST), Narmak, Tehran 16846-13114, Iran

Received: 2022-06-30 Accepted : 2022-08-31 Published : 2022-12-01

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