《WALLS OF BEADS》.pdfVIP

IJRRAS 7 (1) ● April 2011 /Volumes/Vol7Issue1/IJRRAS_7_1_01.pdf BEHAVIOUR OF POLYMERIC MULTISCALE FOAM UNDER DYNAMIC LOADING -STUDY OF THE INFLUENCE OF THE DENSITY AND THE WALLS OF BEADS P. Viot1,2,*, L. Mah´eo1 A. Mercier2 1 Arts et Metiers ParisTech, I2M-DuMAS UMR 5295 CNRS, Esplanade des arts et metiers, 33405 Talence cedex, France 2 Institut Superieur Industriel de Bruxelles, LMA, H.E. P.-H. Spaak, Brussels, Belgium *E-mail: philippe.viot@ensam.eu, *Tel.: +33 5 56 84 53 62, *Fax: +33 5 56 84 53 66. ABSTRACT Polymeric foams constituted of large beads and microscopic cells are used in a number of applications of passive safety. Previous experimental studies had shown that the heterogeneity of the bead density and the network constituted of bead walls have an influence on the foam behaviour. A numerical approach has been developed to model the local behaviour of multiscale structure of a polymeric foam. The objective of this study is to estimate the influence of the cell microstructure and the bead wall structure on the macroscopic response of the foam and moreover to explain the phenomena of bead wall buckling and strain localisation bands observed experimentally. Numerical simulations (in LS-Dyna) have been carried out in order to implement the two sizes of the foam morphology, the mesoscopic scale of beads were represented by a dense wall structure (the thickness of the walls is one of the parameter of the modelling) and the behaviour of microscopic cells was represented by a classical model of cellular material (implemented in FE code and experimentally identified). A design of experiment was established to better identify the influence of each parameter -thickness of the wall, bead densi