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 …

Energy absorption of thin walled tube filled with gradient auxetic structures-theory and simulation

Q Gao, WH Liao - International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 2021 - Elsevier
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 …

Improving the crashworthiness of bio-inspired multi-cell thin-walled tubes under axial loading: Experimental, numerical, and theoretical studies

M Jin, X Hou, G Yin, R Yao, J Gao, Z Deng - Thin-Walled Structures, 2022 - Elsevier
Bio-inspired thin-walled structures are widely applied in the engineering field to improve
energy-absorption performance. In this study, the axial crushing resistances with large …

Quasi-static crushing behavior of novel circular double arrowed auxetic honeycombs: Experimental test and numerical simulation

F Jiang, S Yang, C Ding, C Qi - Thin-Walled Structures, 2022 - Elsevier
Double arrowed honeycomb (DAH) is a typical auxetic material with negative Poisson's ratio
(NPR) and excellent mechanical properties, showing a wide application prospect in …

On impacting mechanical behaviors of side fractal structures

Y Zhang, N He, X Song, T Chen, H Chen - Thin-Walled Structures, 2020 - Elsevier
To enhance the impacting mechanical performance of the thin-walled structure, this paper
proposes three new side fractal structures and investigates their crashworthiness by the …

Deformation pattern classification and energy absorption optimization of the eccentric body centered cubic lattice structures

P Li, F Yang, Y Bian, S Zhang, L Wang - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Lattice structures have shown excellent mechanical properties, such as high energy
absorption capacity. In this work, the extended body centered cubic lattice was proposed by …

A novel axially half corrugated thin-walled tube for energy absorption under axial loading

A Sadighi, A Eyvazian, M Asgari, AM Hamouda - Thin-Walled Structures, 2019 - Elsevier
In this paper, tubes with different axial corrugations were studied under axial loading.
Accordingly, a new axially half-corrugated thin-walled tube was developed to improve the …

A novel multi-cell square tubal structure based on Voronoi tessellation for enhanced crashworthiness

HS Abdullahi, S Gao - Thin-Walled Structures, 2020 - Elsevier
In this paper, a novel multi-cell tubal structure with randomized cell sizes is proposed to
enhance the energy absorption of the conventional square tubes by utilizing the random …

Crashworthiness performance of square, pentagonal, and hexagonal thin-walled structures with a new sectional design

Z Ghahremanzadeh… - Mechanics of Advanced …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
New sectional design is suggested for square, pentagonal, and hexagonal structures, and
their crashworthiness capabilities are investigated using LS-DYNA. These structures …

Optimization design for circular multi-cell thin-walled tubes with discrete and continuous design variables

Eİ Albak - Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Wall thickness and the number of cells are important elements affecting crashworthiness.
While wall thickness is expressed as the continuous design variable, the number of ribs and …