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

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 …

As a class of promising cost-effective lightweight structures, metal-composite hybrid
structures has rapidly emerged in automotive industry largely attributable to their …

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 …

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

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 …

This article reports on the manufacturing, experimental testing, and finite element analysis of
very thick and long carbon-fiber-reinforced polymers (CFRP) tubes under uniaxial …

This research presents an experimental examination of the crashworthiness performance
and the crush history of hybrid constructions made of metal and composite materials. The …

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 …