基于 ALE 方法的弹体入水硬质聚氨酯泡沫缓冲器降载性能分析

A rigid polyurethane foam (RPUF) buffer was designed to reduce the load of a projectile during high-speed water entry. Based on the Hopkinson compression bar technique, the density and strain rate effects of RPUF under impact loading were obtained, and its macroscopic constitutive model was established. Based on the Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE), the numerical simulation model of the projectile during high-speed water entry was established. The numerical simulation of the projectile during high-speed water entry with different densities of RPUF was carried out. The dynamic failure process and motion parameters of the buffer during the water entry were obtained, and the influence law of the density and thickness of RPUF on the load reduction characteristics was analyzed. It can be found that the strain rate effect of RPUF is not obvious, but the density effect is obvious, and that, as the density and thickness of RPUF increase, the load reduction performance of RPUF increases.