Innovative honeycomb-based structures have been paid substantial attention in recent years
due to their superb mechanical performances and specific functions. The presented study …

Thin-walled structures have been widely used as key components in automobile and
aerospace industry to improve the crashworthiness and safety of vehicles while maintaining …

In this study the energy absorption of elastomeric foam-filled aluminum honeycomb under
quasi-static compression loading and low velocity impact was experimentally investigated …

This paper describes an experimental investigation on the response of composite sandwich
structures with tubular inserts to quasi-static compression. The performance parameters …

Honeycomb-filled thin-walled square tube (HFST) structure is a new outstanding energy
absorption component, which has attracted great attention in recent years. This paper aims …

Structural optimization has been widely used to improve the crashworthiness of foam-filled
thin-walled structures. However, majority of the existing optimization studies to date have not …

This paper investigates the effect of polyurethane foam-filler on the lateral plastic
deformation in the circular tubes under radial quasi-static loading, experimentally. For this …

Polymer composite sandwich structures are promising candidate structures for reducing
vehicle mass, thereby improving the fuel economics. Nonetheless, to fully explore this …

In this article, some theoretical relations are derived to predict the mean folding force, total
absorbed energy per unit of tube length and specific absorbed energy per unit of total mass …

This paper is an attempt for introduction of new theoretical relations in order to predict
energy absorption behavior of empty and polyurethane foam-filled composite tubes, which …