In this review paper, we show that the current battery electric vehicle (BEV) scale-up relies
on several key technologies which all have detailed roadmaps with good track records for …

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 …

Multiobjective reliability-based design optimization (RBDO) is a research area, which has
not been investigated in the literatures comparing with single-objective RBDO. This work …

As a class of promising cost-effective lightweight structures, metal-composite hybrid
structures has rapidly emerged in automotive industry largely attributable to their …

A novel bi-graded honeycomb was proposed by introducing both in-plane and out-of-plane
thickness gradients into a regular honeycomb. The graded honeycombs were additively …

Multi-cell thin-walled structures have proven fairly effective in energy absorption and have
been extensively used in vehicle engineering. However, the effects of multi-cell …

Hierarchy has been introduced to honeycomb structures in pursuing ultralight materials with
outstanding mechanical properties. Nevertheless, the hierarchical honeycombs under the …

Multi-cell tubes have been drawn increasing attention for their excellent energy-absorbing
ability. However, the effect of cell number and oblique loads on crashing behaviors has …

Multi-cell structures have been extensively studied for their outstanding performance as
potential energy absorbers. Unlike existing multi-cell tubes with a uniform thickness (UT) …

Lithium-ion batteries are the most prominent power source for electric vehicles. The
continues use at different environmental conditions demand accurate electrical and …