Crashworthiness of adhesively bonded bio-inspired AL/CFRP hybrid tubes under lateral loading
Farhad Latifzadeh, Ali Keshavarzi, Hamed Saeidi Googarchin
Abstract
This study presents both numerical and experimental investigations into adhesively bonded bio-inspired composite/aluminum hybrid structures under quasi-static lateral loading. Benefiting from numerical predictions utilizing a CZM-based simulation for the adhesives and a well-known damage model for the composites, the research highlights adhesive bonding as a method for joining aluminum and composite materials, aiming to achieving desirable energy absorption behavior prior to failure in the connection and without heterogeneous deformation of the structure especially given the limitations of composites. In this study, a novel hybrid structure was designed inspired from Tendon and numerically analyzed in two different configurations.