On the crashworthiness of thin-walled multi-cell structures and materials: State of the art and prospects

R Yao, T Pang, B Zhang, J Fang, Q Li, G Sun - Thin-Walled Structures, 2023 - Elsevier
Over the past few decades, there has been a constant pursuit for lightweight and high-
performance energy absorption structures and materials in automobiles, trains, ships …

Analysis of energy absorption characteristics of a sinusoidal corrugated filled tube

F Yang, X Deng, C Wang - Mechanics of Advanced Materials and …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
In this paper, a sinusoidal corrugated filled tube (SCFT) is proposed by filling aluminum
foam into a sinusoidal corrugated tube, the finite element model is established using the …

Three-dimensional modeling of frontal polymerization for rapid, efficient, and uniform thermoset composites manufacturing

A Tarafdar, C Jia, W Hu, ID Hosein, KK Fu… - Composites Part B …, 2023 - Elsevier
Due to the incapability of one-dimensional (1D) and two-dimensional (2D) models in
simulating the frontal polymerization (FP) process in laminated composites with multiple …

Mechanical properties of horsetail bio-inspired honeycombs under quasi-static axial load

X Niu, F Xu, Z Zou, Y Zhu, L Duan, Z Du… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
The bionic strategy is regarded as a highly effective design approach for honeycomb
structures. To improve the crushing resistance of the honeycombs, some novel bio …

Crashworthiness behavior assessment and multi-objective optimization of horsetail-inspired sandwich tubes based on artificial neural network

M Rezaei Faraz, S Hosseini, A Tarafdar… - Mechanics of …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The crashworthiness behavior of horsetail-inspired sandwich tubes was analyzed in this
study. Multilayer perceptron (MLP) algorithms with the Levenberg-Marquardt training …

Crashworthiness evaluation and optimization of full polypropylene sandwich tubes under low-velocity impact based on machine learning algorithms

W Ma, N Almasifar, R Amini, A Ourang, I Mahariq… - Structures, 2024 - Elsevier
The performance of traditional single and multi-cell tubular energy absorbers was enhanced
through the design of a polypropylene tube inspired by biological structures such as …

Experimental and numerical investigation on crashworthiness of composite reinforced auxetic cellular tubes

M Oloumi Doudaran, H Ahmadi… - … of Advanced Materials …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
This study aims to investigate the crashworthiness properties of thin-walled foam-filled
Auxetic metal/composite cellular tubes under quasi-static and low-velocity impact axial …

Impact resistance of horsetail bio-honeycombs

X Niu, F Xu, Z Zou, Y Zhu - International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 2024 - Elsevier
Inspired by the ingenious cross-sectional structure of horsetail stems, a group of novel
horsetail bio-honeycombs (HBHs) are firstly proposed to pursuit a superior impact resistance …

Crashworthiness analysis and multi-objective optimization design for foam-filled spiral tube

G Luo, J Liu, L Li, P Xue, J Zhao, Y Chen - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Thin-walled structures, due to their favorable mechanical properties and exceptional energy
absorption capabilities, find extensive applications across various engineering fields. This …

Design and study of crashworthiness for square vicsek fractal hierarchical multicellular tubes under axial compression

S Xu, H Huang, X Deng - Journal of Sandwich Structures & …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Through extensive examination of thin-walled structures, the efficacy of enhancing the
crashworthiness of thin-walled tubes via layered structures has been confirmed. In this …