Optimization for structural crashworthiness and energy absorption has become an important
topic of research attributable to its proven benefits to public safety and social economy. This …

For better crashworthiness performance, vehicles must protect its occupants by maintaining
structural integrity and converting the large amount of kinetic energy into other forms of …

Introducing thickness gradient in cross-section is a quite promising approach to increase the
energy absorption efficiency and crashworthiness performance of thin-walled structures …

New functional requirements stimulate a rapid development of novel structural members.
This paper presents a crashworthiness design of the regular hexagonal thin-walled columns …

Plastic deformation of structures absorbs substantial kinetic energy when impact occurs. For
this reason, energy-absorbing components have been extensively used in the structural …

A comparative study of energy absorption characteristics between foam-filled square
columns and multi-cell square columns was conducted by using nonlinear finite element …

As more and more new functional requirements are placed, some novel development of
sectional configurations of the structural members has been increasingly introduced. This …

Energy absorption characteristics of regular polygonal columns and angle elements under
dynamic axial compression are investigated by using non-linear explicit finite element code …

In the early design phase of vehicles, performing lightweight design of body-in-white (BIW)
using shape, size and topology optimization is a challenge. The large amount of design …

Nonlinear finite element analysis is used to investigate the quasi-static axial collapse
response of cylindrical tubes which are externally stiffened by multiple identical rings. The …