Thin-walled structures have been widely used in energy absorption and safety applications such as automotive, due to their lightweight and progressive folding modes. This work studies the collapse behavior and energy ...

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 energy absorption characteristics. The forming ...

Thin-walled structures are used in safety applications such as automotive vehicles and locomotives because of their efficient energy absorption, light weight, and reduced manufacturing cost. The performance of these ...

This paper introduces the date palm leaf fiber (DPLF) as a possible natural fiber candidate to the automotive applications. An extensive experimental program has been carried out to examine the energy absorption capability ...

Composite structures are being increasingly utilized in the automotive industry for their lightweight and specific energy absorption capabilities. Recently, the Composite Hexagonal Quadruple Ring System (CHQRS) has been ...

Thin-walled structures are used for crashworthiness energy absorption applications such as automobile vehciles and aircraft. Structures of sinusoidally corrugated profiles were of great interest because of their ability ...

Cellular carbon fiber-reinforced plastic (CFRP) composites, either unfilled or filled with foam, may be of interest for energy absorption application due to their improved crashworthiness. In the current paper, new ...

In the current paper a series of experiments were conducted to assess the crashworthiness of cellular hexagonal/octagonal composite device. Each device composed of 6 cells of carbon fiber reinforced composite (CFRP). ...

The crashworthiness of fiber reinforced plastics (FRP) is attracting more interest as they are currently contributing to several industries. In the present study, internally strengthened foam-filled rectangular carbon fiber ...

In this study, additively manufactured aluminum thin-walled tubes with different slit dimensions are proposed to improve energy absorption efficiency. A total of 18 samples, which varied in the number of slits, slit length, ...