Investigation of a panel with an elastomer layer plus carbon fibres loaded with a blast wave

Terrorist attacks are directed against the most important elements of the infrastructure and human life. Crews of the combat vehicles as well as transmission installation of oil, gas and electric energy are, first of all, exposed to such operations. Such a situation caused striving to increase the safety against the activity of short-time loads coming from explosions [l, 2]. The object of the presented investigations was a numerical-experimental analysis of an elastomer layer of the protective panel combined with an experimental verification. Developed elastomer structures constitute perspective materials and will be applied to solve the problems connected with the increase of combat vehicle safety as well as trouble constructions of pipelines and gas pipelines especially in the dangerous places such as passages over rivers. A plate with an elastomer layer (with carbon fibres) loaded with a 100 g TNT charge was subjected to the analysis. The numerical analysis was verified experimentally. The results of the conducted analyses will be applied in further works on the selection of the kinds and parameters of the energy absorbing layers. They will be also used for further validating and optimizing investigations, which will aim at absorbing or dispersion of a maximum great value of energy influencing the energy absorbing panel. Such panels can be used for constructing armoured vehicles and protective elements of stationary strategic constructions. The constructions which can be exposed to damages resulted from a different kind of dynamic forces such as impacts or influences of the pressure wave comingfrom detonation of an explosive material should have the structure enabling absorption of as great as possible part of energy which influences them. Energy absorbing elements are constructed in the form of sandwich structures coats with a specially selected core material. One of the interesting types of materials which can be used for this purpose is elastomer. These materials enable significant increasing of the protective degree due to their capacities of absorbing energy of a blast wave. Applying of these materials results in decreasing of vibrations frequency of a system loaded with a pressure impulse.