Lightweight materials and structures have attracted tremendous interests for their compelling
advantages in a range of engineering problems that have placed heightened requirements …

Several natural fibres such as hemp, flax, sisal, kenaf and jute have been used in different
industrial applications. Recently, natural fibres have drawn the interest of researchers …

To meet the growing demands for structural lightweight and safety, metal-foam-composite
hybrid tubular sandwich structures, which combine low-cost metallic materials and high …

The custom of hybridization fibre composite in energy absorption tube application has
gained the attention of structural crashworthiness in composite material industry. Thus, the …

This study aims to investigate the effects of winding angles (25°, 50°, 75°, 90°; the 0°
winding angle is along the axial direction of the tube) and thicknesses (3-ply, 6-ply, 9-ply) on …

Crashworthiness of aeronautical composite structures can be effectively regulated and
controlled by fiber hybridization design, because the structural failure modes are highly …

Natural silk fibre can reinforce the polymer matrix for composites with improved toughness
and impact strength. However, the optimum selection of matrices for the mechanical …

Composite tubes show a good energy absorbing ability and they have great potential as
energy absorbing components to replace traditional metal structures in automobiles …

A novel bionic bamboo-shaped tubular structure (BBSTS) was proposed to improve the
energy absorption performance of composite tube under oblique crushing. A finite element …

This work experimentally investigates the quasi‐static crush response and energy
absorption of glass‐reinforced epoxy thin‐walled crash box filled with nano‐aluminum oxide …