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Energy Dissipating Composite Member With Progressive Failure

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dc.contributor.patentcreator Dancila, Stefan D.
dc.contributor.patentcreator Armanios, Erian A.
dc.date.accessioned 2017-05-12T14:27:34Z
dc.date.available 2017-05-12T14:27:34Z
dc.date.filed 4/28/1998
dc.date.issued 10/24/2000
dc.description.abstract A tailored structural member that is designed to generate a yield-type response, with applicability to the arrest of a moving body. The structural member comprises a primary load path connected in parallel to a longer secondary load path at a pair of common nodes. The primary load path is designed to fail at a lower load than that required to fail the secondary load path when subjected to a tensile force. As a result of the load redistribution achieved through the use of the redundant paths provided by the primary and secondary load paths, the structural member dissipates more kinetic energy from the moving body within a given set of displacement and deceleration force constraints than is possible using a conventional, uniform cross-section member.
dc.description.assignee Georgia Tech Research Corp.
dc.identifier.cpc F16F7/123
dc.identifier.cpc Y10T428/249921
dc.identifier.cpc Y10T428/24058
dc.identifier.patentapplicationnumber 09/067465
dc.identifier.patentnumber 6136406
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1853/57356
dc.identifier.uspc 428/98
dc.title Energy Dissipating Composite Member With Progressive Failure
dc.type Text
dc.type.genre Patent
dspace.entity.type Publication
local.contributor.corporatename Georgia Institute of Technology
local.relation.ispartofseries Georgia Tech Patents
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relation.isSeriesOfPublication 0f49c79d-4efb-4bd9-b060-5c7f9191b9da
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