In the past decades, there has been a constant aspiration for light-weight and highly efficient
energy-absorbing structures and materials in vehicle and other industries. A large number of …

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 …

Bio-inspired engineering design has drawn considerable attention in the recent years for its
great structural and mechanical features. This study aimed to explore the energy absorption …

Hierarchical structures and gradient structures have become research hotspots due to their
excellent crashworthiness. However, hierarchical gradient structures that combine …

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

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 …

In this paper, a class of axisymmetric thin-walled square (ATS) tubes with two types of
geometries (straight and tapered) and two kinds of cross-sections (single-cell and multi-cell) …

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

In this paper, a novel foam-filled ellipse tube (FET) is proposed and compared with other
hollow and foam-filled tubes with different cross-sections under multiple loading angles …

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