The present study investigates the effects of close-range blast loading of fibre metal laminates (FMLs) fabricated from woven glass polypropylene and aluminium alloy 2024-T3. The polypropylene layers and anodized aluminium are stacked in 3/2 layering configuration to investigate the impact energy absorbed through deformation and damage. In order to study the blast responses of FMLs, a 4-cable instrumented pendulum blast set-up is used. Effects of blast impulse and stand-off distance were examined. Investigation of the cross-section of FMLs are presented and damages such as fibre fracture, debonding, and global deformation are examined. Increasing stand-off distance from 4 to 14 mm resulted in a change of damage mode from highly localized perforation to global deformation.

Department of Aerospace Engineering Faculty of Engineering Universiti Putra Malaysia Serdang 43400 Malaysia

Department of Mechanical and Aerospace engineering Politecnico di Torino 10129 Torino Italy

Faculty of Engineering School of Mechanical engineering University Technology Malaysia Skudai 81310 Malaysia

Institute for Nanomaterials Advanced Technologies and Innovation Studentska 2 46117 Liberec Czech Republic

National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures and Department of Material Science and Engineering Nanjing University Nanjing 210093 China

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