The axial crushing performance of bio-inspired hierarchical multi-cell hexagonal tubes

Z Gao, H Zhang, J Zhao, D Ruan - International Journal of Mechanical …, 2023 - Elsevier
Both the concepts of bio-inspiration and hierarchy are found to be effective in enhancing the
crushing performance of tubes. In this paper, the bio-inspired hierarchical multi-cell …

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 …

Energy absorption assessment of bio-mimicked hybrid Al/PP sandwich tube: Experimental and Numerical Investigation

MR Faraz, H Ahmadi, G Liaghat, S Vahid… - Thin-Walled …, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper aims to investigate quasi-static and low-velocity impact responses of three
manufactured bio-inspired hybrid multi-cell aluminum and polypropylene (Al/PP) sandwich …

Impact crushing response of additively manufactured hybrid metal-composite structures—a state of the art review

AP Kumar, AK Kumar - Functional Composites and Structures, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Thin-walled energy absorbing structures based on hybrid structural concepts have a
lightweight benefit along with great potential of enhancing the crashworthiness …

Prediction of resisting force and tensile load reduction in GFRP composite materials using Artificial Neural Network-Enhanced Jaya Algorithm

N Fahem, I Belaidi, AO Brahim, M Noori, S Khatir… - Composite …, 2023 - Elsevier
This work presents an experimental and a numerical studies on the effect of the
phenomenon of porosity on the mechanical properties of Glass Fiber Reinforced Polymer …

Parametric study on the crashworthiness of the Al/CFRP/GFRP hybrid tubes under quasi-static crushing

Z Zhang, Q Liu, J Fu, Y Lu - Thin-Walled Structures, 2023 - Elsevier
Metal/composite hybrid structures have attracted widespread attention due to great
characteristics. This study aimed to explore the effects of different parameters on the energy …

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 …

Experimental and computational analysis of energy absorption characteristics of three biomimetic lattice structures under compression

M Vafaeefar, KM Moerman, TJ Vaughan - Journal of the Mechanical …, 2024 - Elsevier
The objective of this study is to evaluate the mechanical properties and energy absorption
characteristics of the gyroid, dual-lattice and spinodoid structures, as biomimetic lattices …

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 …