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 …

Multi-cell tubes have been widely used in vehicle engineering for their excellent energy
absorption capacity. In this paper, a group of bionic multi-cell tubes (BMCTs) with …

Multi-cell thin-wall structures have drawn increasing attention and been widely applied in
automotive and aerospace industries for their significant advantages in high energy …

Thin-walled structures have exhibited significant advantages in light weight and energy
absorption and been widely applied in automotive, aerospace, transportation and defense …

Multi-cell structures have been extensively studied for their outstanding performance as
potential energy absorbers. Unlike existing multi-cell tubes with a uniform thickness (UT) …

Vehicle crashworthiness is an important issue to ensure passengers safety and reduce
vehicle costs in the early design stage of vehicle design. The aim of the crashworthiness …

Foam-filled thin-walled structure and multi-cell thin-walled structure both have recently
gained attentions for their excellent energy absorption capacity. As an integrator of the …

Despite the rapid growth of computing power and continuing advancements in numerical
techniques, significant complexity exists when applying traditional sensitivity based …

Although deterministic optimization has to a considerable extent been successfully applied
in various crashworthiness designs to improve passenger safety and reduce vehicle cost …

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 …