Low-velocity impact damage and energy absorption characteristics of stiffened syntactic foam core sandwich composites

SJA Kumar, SJA Kumar - Construction and Building Materials, 2020 - Elsevier
Syntactic foam core sandwich composites are potential materials for marine structural
applications because of its high specific properties and better energy absorption …

Thermal expansion and dynamic mechanical analysis of epoxy matrix–borosilicate glass hollow particle syntactic foams

SE Zeltmann, B Chen, N Gupta - Journal of Cellular Plastics, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Syntactic foams are commonly fabricated with sodalime–borosilicate glass hollow
microsphere fillers, which are susceptible to degradation after long-term or high temperature …

The failure behavior of syntactic foams as buoyancy materials for deepsea applications

Y Gao, L Ying, Z Fan, Y Wei - European Journal of Mechanics-A/Solids, 2024 - Elsevier
Syntactic foams made of hollow particles embedded in a matrix material are widely used as
buoyancy materials for underwater marine structures, where both low density and high …

Influence of axial compressive loads on buckling and free vibration response of surface-modified fly ash cenosphere/epoxy syntactic foams

S Waddar, P Jeyaraj… - Journal of Composite …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
This work deals with experimental buckling and free vibration behavior of silane-treated
cenosphere/epoxy syntactic foams subjected to axial compression. Critical buckling loads …

[HTML][HTML] Transition from equatorial to whole-shell buckling in embedded spherical shells under axisymmetric far-field loading

GW Jones, MJA Smith, M Thorpe, ID Abrahams… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Motivated by the need to understand the compression of syntactic foam composites, we
solve the canonical problem of buckling of a thin spherical shell embedded in a medium that …

Mechanical properties of epoxy matrix-borosilicate glass hollow-particle syntactic foams

SE Zeltmann, B Chen, N Gupta - Materials …, 2017 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Syntactic foams are particulate composites, which consist of a dispersion of hollow particles
in a matrix. These materials are extensively used in the structures of underwater vehicles …

Axisymmetric static and dynamic buckling of hollow microspheres

A Shams, M Porfiri - International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics, 2014 - Elsevier
Syntactic foams are particulate composites that are obtained by dispersing thin hollow
inclusions in a matrix material. The wide spectrum of applications of these composites in …

Buckling and free vibration behavior of cenosphere/epoxy syntactic foams under axial compressive loading

S Waddar, J Pitchaimani… - Materials …, 2018 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
The buckling and free vibration behavior of cenosphere/epoxy syntactic foams under axial
compressive loading are investigated experimentally in this work. The buckling load is …

Shear modulus prediction of a particulate composite reinforced with hollow spheres surrounded by a graded interphase

R Sburlati, R Cianci - Composite Structures, 2020 - Elsevier
The aim of this paper is to understand how the shear modulus of a particulate composite,
manufactured with hollow spheres surrounded by a graded interphase in a matrix, depends …

Analysis of particle–matrix interfacial debonding using the proper generalized decomposition

A Shams, M Porfiri - Composite Structures, 2014 - Elsevier
Syntactic foams are a class of particulate composites consisting of microballoons dispersed
in a matrix material. While several modeling schemes have been developed to study their …