Polyurea for blast and impact protection: A review

R Zhang, W Huang, P Lyu, S Yan, X Wang, J Ju - Polymers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Polyurea has attracted extensive attention from researchers and engineers in the field of
blast and impact protection due to its excellent quasi-static mechanical properties and …

Impact Behavior of Advanced Films under Micro-and Nano-scales: A Review

Y Cheng, J Dong, K Xiao, M Jiang, C Huang… - Thin-Walled Structures, 2024 - Elsevier
High-performance materials with excellent impact resistance are of fundamental importance
in impact protective engineering. With the development of experimental facilities and …

Self-Assembly of Ultrathin, Ultrastrong Layered Membranes by Protic Solvent Penetration

C Li, M Zhang, P Li, HR Ren, X Wu, Z Piao… - Journal of the …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Flexible membranes with ultrathin thickness and excellent mechanical properties have
shown great potential for broad uses in solid polymer electrolytes (SPEs), on-skin …

[HTML][HTML] Probing the molecular-level energy absorption mechanism and strategic sequencing of graphene/Al composite laminates under high-velocity ballistic impact …

KK Gupta, T Mukhopadhyay, S Dey - Applied Surface Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Motivated by recent discoveries concerning the extreme superiority of multilayer graphene in
terms of kinetic energy dissipation compared to conventional monolithic materials, this …

Strengthening and converse strengthening effects of polyurea layer on polyurea–steel composite structure subjected to combined actions of blast and fragments

L Zhang, C Ji, X Wang, Y Wang, G Wu, H Zhu… - Thin-Walled Structures, 2022 - Elsevier
Coating polyurea can significantly enhance the blast and impact resistance of thin-walled
metal structures. However, most current research focuses only on the condition of single …

On exploiting nonparametric kernel-based probabilistic machine learning over the large compositional space of high entropy alloys for optimal nanoscale ballistics

KK Gupta, S Barman, S Dey, S Naskar… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
The large compositional space of high entropy alloys (HEA) often presents significant
challenges in comprehensively deducing the critical influence of atomic composition on their …

[PDF][PDF] High-velocity ballistics of twisted bilayer graphene under stochastic disorder

KK Gupta, T Mukhopadhyay, L Roy, S Dey - Adv Nano Res, 2022 - researchgate.net
Graphene is one of the strongest, stiffest, and lightest nanoscale materials known to date,
making it a potentially viable and attractive candidate for developing lightweight structural …

Molecular dynamics study on the thermal conductivity and ballistic resistance of twisted graphene

W Sun, S Xue, J Jiang - Computational Materials Science, 2023 - Elsevier
The twist as a new degree of freedom induces several angle dependent properties in twisted
graphene, such as electronic and optical properties. However, the ballistic resistance and …

Molecular dynamics simulations of shock propagation and spallation in amorphous polymers

MAN Dewapriya, RE Miller - Journal of Applied …, 2021 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
We conducted large-scale molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of shock wave propagation
and spallation in amorphous polyurethane and polyurea. First, we computed the shock …

[HTML][HTML] Ballistic impact induced wave propagation and dislocation of three-dimensional graphene origami/copper nanocomposites

W Zhang, Y Zhang, S Zhao, Y Zhang, J Yang - Composites …, 2024 - Elsevier
Graphene (Gr)-reinforced nanocomposites have great potential as impact protection
materials due to their exceptional mechanical properties. However, the intrinsic brittleness of …