Lightweight materials and structures have attracted tremendous interests for their compelling
advantages in a range of engineering problems that have placed heightened requirements …

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 …

Mechanical metamaterials exhibit properties and functionalities that cannot be realized in
conventional materials. Originally, the field focused on achieving unusual (zero or negative) …

Collision accidents may lead to significant asset damage and human casualties. This paper
introduces a direct analysis methodology that makes use of Automatic Identification System …

Innovative honeycomb-based structures have been paid substantial attention in recent years
due to their superb mechanical performances and specific functions. The presented study …

Over the past several decades, a noticeable amount of research efforts has been directed to
minimising injuries and death to people inside a structure that is subjected to an impact …

This study proposes novel bio-inspired fractal multi-cell circular (BFMC) tubes for energy
absorption. The inner structures of the proposed BFMC tubes were constructed based on the …

Bio-inspired thin-walled structures have gained growing interests attributed to their excellent
performance of energy absorption and lightweight. This study proposes a novel energy …

Optimization for structural crashworthiness and energy absorption has become an important
topic of research attributable to its proven benefits to public safety and social economy. This …

Geometric configurations in nature could be mimicked in order to develop novel materials
and structures with desirable properties. Lots of bio-inspired configurations had been …