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 …

The choice for a proper external trigger and fiber hybridization configuration has a significant
impact on the stability of the crushing process and material cost for composite structures in …

Carbon fibre reinforced plastics (CFRP) are characterized by lightweight, high specific
strength and stiffness, superior energy-absorbing capacity, and excellent design flexibility …

In the present study, the crashworthiness and the numerical simulation of circular hybrid
aluminium-CFRP tubes are investigated. It can be shown that hybrids provide significant …

Angle-ply carbon fibre reinforced polymer (CFRP) crush tubes were tested in drop weight
impact experiments. High-fidelity computational modelling of the dynamic impact response …

This paper presents a three-dimensional thermo-mechanical finite element (FE) model on
the micro-scale for the orthogonal cutting simulation of unidirectional carbon fiber reinforced …

This paper aims to explore the failure modes and crashworthiness characteristics of double
hat shaped tubes made of weave carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) subjected to quasi …

High-speed infrared thermography, micro-CT characterization and full-scale mesostructural
simulation were jointly applied to reveal the impact deformation and damage mechanism of …

Abstract Design of multi-cell sectional configuration has been considered an effective way to
enhance the crashworthiness performance of metallic thin-walled structure. Nevertheless, it …