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Servo-hydraulic System for Controlled Velocity Water Impact of Marine Sandwich Panels

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Slamming, the impact between a marine craft’s hull and the water surface is a critical load case for structural design of marine vessels. The importance of hull slamming has led to a significant body of work to understand, predict and model these impacts. There is however, a lack of experimental data for validation, particularly for deformable panels and sandwich structures. This paper describes a high-velocity panel slamming test system that enables the generation of comprehensive and reliable experimental data on slamming impacts for both rigid and flexible panel structures. The pressure magnitudes, time-histories and spatial distributions resulting from testing of a nominally rigid panel have been compared with previous analytical, semi-empirical and experimental studies. Slamming impacts of a deformable sandwich panel are shown to cause different pressures to those from a rigid panel impact, resulting in increased transverse shear loading at the panel edge.

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This research has been financially supported by the USA Office of Naval Research (Grant N00014-08-1-0136) with Dr Y. Rajapakse as programme manager. The assistance of Industrial Research Limited in providing access to the SSTS and SP-High Modulus (NZ) in providing technical guidance, materials supply and specimen manufacturing is also gratefully acknowledged.

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Battley, M., Allen, T. Servo-hydraulic System for Controlled Velocity Water Impact of Marine Sandwich Panels. Exp Mech 52, 95–106 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11340-011-9543-7

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