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Experimental Study of Corrugated Metal-composite Tubes under Axial Loading

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In this paper, the experimental results showed that corrugated metal composite tubes demonstrate perfect energy absorption characteristics in terms of uniformity of load-displacement diagram, reduction of initial peak load and controlling failure mechanism.
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This article is published in Procedia Engineering.The article was published on 2017-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 30 citations till now.

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Thin-walled corrugated structures: A review of crashworthiness designs and energy absorption characteristics

TL;DR: In this article, a comprehensive overview of recent advances in the development of corrugated structures for energy absorption applications, also considering the effects of Corrugation characteristics on their crashworthiness, is provided.
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Energy absorption analysis of a novel foam-filled corrugated composite tube under axial and oblique loadings

TL;DR: In this paper, a new corrugated composite cylindrical tube has been introduced in order to improve crashworthiness along with a stable crushing, and the effects of corrugations regarding charactristics of energy absorption have underwent quasi-static axial and oblique loading investigations.
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Selection of optimum design for conical segmented aluminum tubes as energy absorbers: Application of MULTIMOORA method

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated a thin-walled conical segmented aluminum tube which consists of several circular sections with different thicknesses and applied the numeric logic (NL) technique to determine the weight of various criteria.
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Crushing response of CFRP and KFRP composite corrugated tubes to quasi-static slipping axial loading: Experimental investigation and numerical simulation

TL;DR: In this article, the energy absorption capability and crushing behavior of composite corrugated tubes have been studied experimentally and numerically under quasi-static axial slipping crushing loading, and the calculated crashworthiness parameters were evaluated and presented.
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Crashworthiness Analysis of a Novel Aluminum Bi-tubular Corrugated Tube—Experimental Study

TL;DR: In this paper, a novel bi-tubular corrugated tube is designed, and experimental compression tests were conducted to evaluate the crashworthiness characteristics under lateral loading conditions Critical crashworthiness parameters such as the total absorbed energy were extracted, and the efficacy of the structure was compared with its conventional Corrugated counterpart.
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Axial crushing behavior and energy absorption efficiency of corrugated tubes

TL;DR: In this article, the effect of corrugations on the crushing behavior, energy absorption, and failure mode of circular aluminum tubes was investigated under axial compressive loading, and it was shown that corrugated tubes have a uniform load-displacement curve without an initial peak load.
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Behaviour of axially crushed corrugated tubes

TL;DR: In this paper, the energy absorption characteristics of corrugated tubes are experimentally studied, where corrugations are introduced in the tube to force the plastic deformation to occur at predetermined intervals along the tube generator.
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Multi-objective crashworthiness optimization of tapered thin-walled tubes with axisymmetric indentations

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of axisymmetric indentations on the crash performance of thin-walled tubes are investigated using surrogate based optimization, and the results showed that the tubes with indentations have better crush performance than tubes without indentations.
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A Comparative Study of Non-traditional Methods for Vehicle Crashworthiness and NVH Optimization

TL;DR: In this paper, metamodeling and five well-known metaheuristic optimization algorithms were used to reduce the weight and improve crash and NVH attributes of a vehicle simultaneously.
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