A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
The present invention discloses a class of arch-structured, multi-layer, lightweight composites with high capacity to absorb and disperse single or multiple incoming objects with associated energy flux that directly strikes onto one side of the composite, so as minimize the impact and possible damage to the objects behind another side of the composite, wherein the upcoming moving objects can be projectiles, or an upcoming shock wave front produced by blasts, or the impact during a collision, for examples, a crush-landing of an air-vehicle and the impact of heavy truck's wheel to a bridge's deck. This class of composite is termed “Lightweight Multi-layer Arch-structured Composite”, in short, LMAR, which implements the art of arch bridges' design into the art of mesoscopic structural design of the composites, allowing optimized combination in geometries and materials to gain desired physical properties and to manufacture with affordable cost.
The present invention discloses a class of arch-structured, multi-layer, lightweight composites with high capacity to absorb and disperse single or multiple incoming objects with associated energy flux that directly strikes onto one side of the composite, so as minimize the impact and possible damage to the objects behind another side of the composite, wherein the upcoming moving objects can be projectiles, or an upcoming shock wave front produced by blasts, or the impact during a collision, for examples, a crush-landing of an air-vehicle and the impact of heavy truck's wheel to a bridge's deck. This class of composite is termed “Lightweight Multi-layer Arch-structured Composite”, in short, LMAR, which implements the art of arch bridges' design into the art of mesoscopic structural design of the composites, allowing optimized combination in geometries and materials to gain desired physical properties and to manufacture with affordable cost.
Lightweight multi-layer arch-structured armor (LMAR)
HAO SU (author)
2015-12-29
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
IPC:
E04C
STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS
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