High strain-rate properties have many applications in the simulation of automotive crash and product drop testing. These properties are difficult to measure. Previously, we described a novel inferential technique for the measurement of the properties of polycarbonate. In this paper, we demonstrate that the technique appears to work for a variety of polymers. We also show that plastics exhibit different kinds of high-strain rate behaviors
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Advances in the Measurement and Modeling of Plastics for Impact Simulations
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Hubert Lobo
Hubert Lobo is founder of DatapointLabs technical center for materials and its software partner Matereality. The two companies share a mission to strengthen the materials core of manufacturing enterprises. He has a degree from Cornell University and 25 years of experience in the science and testing of materials for use in CAE and new product development. He has been honored as a Fellow of the Society of Plastics Engineers, for his pioneering work in quantifying polymer behavior for CAE. Besides authoring numerous articles and books, including the Handbook of Plastics Analysis, he holds patents for test instruments and computer software.
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