Deb, Anindya and Shivakumar, ND (2009) An Experimental Study on Energy Absorption Behavior of Polyurethane Foams. In: Journal of reinforced plastics and composites, 28 (24). pp. 3021-3026.
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This article is concerned with a study on the energy absorption behavior of polyurethane (PU) foams such as flexible high resilience (HR), flexible viscoelastic (VE) and semi-rigid (SR) foams as a function of the overall foam density. Foam samples were prepared in the form of cubes by mixing appropriate polyol and isocyanate compounds produced by Huntsman International India Pvt. Ltd. in varying proportions leading to a range of densities for each type of foam. The cubical samples were tested under compressive load in a standard UTM. Based on the measured load-displacement behaviors, variations of peak load and energy-absorption attributes with respect to density are plotted for each type of foam and the possible existence of an optimum foam density is shown.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Publication: | Journal of reinforced plastics and composites |
| Publisher: | sage publications |
| Additional Information: | Copyright for this article belongs to sage publications. |
| Keywords: | polyurethane foam; density; load; energy absorption; high resilience; viscoelastic; semi-rigid |
| Department/Centre: | Division of Mechanical Sciences > Centre for Product Design & Manufacturing |
| Date Deposited: | 05 Jan 2010 10:56 |
| Last Modified: | 05 Jan 2010 10:56 |
| URI: | http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/25331 |
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