Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Ocean Engineering; and, (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 65). / The use of double hull construction is commonplace within the shipping industry though it is largely unexploited within naval vessels. The Impact and Crashworthiness Lab at MIT has proposed the use of adaptive sandwich structures to improve the blast resistance of naval hulls. This project will address two main areas of investigation through the use of simplified analytical models: the integration of hardening and softening plastic core responses in the crushing of a rigidly supported sandwich panel; and the deformation analysis of a sandwich panel supported by non-rigid connections. The analytical solutions were utilized to perform a series of parametric studies to evaluate both the useable range of the models as well as to investigate the general behavior of a sandwich panel under a uniform load when supported by crushable connections. This initial investigation provides the simplified tools to begin and to validate a more detailed, numerical analysis. / by Christian R. Brown. / S.M.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:MIT/oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/33434 |
| Date | January 2004 |
| Creators | Brown, Christian R. (Christian Randall) |
| Contributors | Tomasz Wierzbicki., Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Mechanical Engineering., Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Ocean Engineering., Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Mechanical Engineering. |
| Publisher | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Source Sets | M.I.T. Theses and Dissertation |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | 65 p., 3216558 bytes, 3219189 bytes, application/pdf, application/pdf, application/pdf |
| Rights | M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission., http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582 |
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