It is widely known that the demand for lightweight structures with excellent energy absorption
capacity is paramount in numerous engineering applications. Many publications have …

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 …

Crash boxes are important energy-absorbing components to ensure the passive safety of
automobile vehicles during crashworthiness. The current study presents an investigation of …

A paradigm shift has emerged over the last decade pointing to an exciting research area
dealing with the harnessing of elastic structural instabilities for'smart'purposes in a variety of …

The ability of a vehicle to protect its occupants from serious injuries in the event of a collision
is defined as crashworthiness. The proper design of lightweight energy absorption …

Inspired by the concept of hierarchy, two types of hierarchical multi-cell square tubes (HMSA
and HMSB) are proposed. The crashworthiness of HMSA and HMSB tubes with various wall …

Thin-walled hollow structures capable of large plastic deformations are ubiquitously present
in sacrificial, high-capacity energy absorbers. A significant challenge in the field of structural …

This study investigates the crush response of lattice filled square tubes under quasi-static
compressive loading. Auxetic lattice (auxetic strut and re-entrant) filled tubes have been …

Thin-walled structures filled or covered by various materials have been proposed for energy
absorption applications in recent years. At this point, additive manufacturing technologies …

The blast response of clamped sandwich panels with layered-gradient aluminium foam
cores was studied experimentally and numerically. The effective blast impulse acting on …