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 …

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 …

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 …

In recent years, auxetic structures have been applied in the energy absorption field due to
the unique mechanical properties. Inspired by foam filled structures, this study proposes a …

It is a long‐standing challenge to break the tradeoffs between different mechanical property
indicators such as the strength versus toughness in the design of lightweight lattice …

Bio-inspired lattices have been proved to possess better energy absorption capacity than
conventional structures. Here, the two-dimensional deep-sea glass sponge structure is …

Previous studies have shown that the multi-cell bi-tubular tubes exhibit superior energy
absorption compared to the multi-cell tubes. To further improve the energy absorption of the …

Recently, auxetic honeycombs have attracted considerable attention for their excellent
mechanical properties, especially the potential applications for energy absorption. In 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 …

Hierarchical materials born of variable natural cellular and intricate architecture are
demonstrated to have the potential to achieve outstanding mechanical properties, thus make …