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 …

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 …

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

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 …

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 …

This study aimed to explore bending collapse behavior and energy absorption capacity of
net aluminum (Al), net carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) and Al/CFRP hybrid tubes …

The study proposed a hybrid adaptive Kriging-based single loop approach (HAK-SLA) to
prevent the conventional single loop approach (SLA) from being less efficient, converging to …

There is an increasing interest in designing lightweight automobile parts to enhance the
passive safety of automobiles and reduce the fuel cost consumption. Variable kinds of novel …

Fatal and serious injuries of vulnerable road users (VRU) occur frequently in the events of
vehicle impact. Front-end crashworthiness of vehicle can considerably affect VRU injuries in …

Thin-walled tubes have been mostly used in passive vehicle safety systems as crash energy
absorber. With the use of additive manufacturing technology, it is possible to produce novel …