Experimental study of the core role of GFRP and LDPE on the collapse behavior of absorbers printed with PLA and ABS

Abstract

Since the advent of polymeric materials, many structures have always been built for engineering purposes. On the one hand, the emergence of composites containing glass fibers has had a significant impact on reducing the weight of structures in various industries. On the other hand, with the advent of 3D printers, many limitations for the geometry of engineering structures were removed. In this research, due to the wide application of these two sciences, a new type of composite absorbers has been introduced. The presented absorbers have glass fiber-reinforced polymer cores (GFRP) or low-density polyethylene cores (LDPE), the shells of each sample are made of PLA or ABS. In this study, 24 different samples were tested under quasi-static loading. The samples were examined in three different groups. In the first group, no cores were used, but in the second group, GFRP cores were used, and in the third group, LDPE cores were used. Triangular, trapezoidal, semielliptical, and square sections were studied, and the results showed that the lowest maximum force was related to samples with semielliptical cross section, then the maximum force increased by changing the cross section from triangular to trapezoidal and then to a square. In addition, the maximum force was higher in the GFRP core than in the LPDE core.