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 …

The product design process has a very important effect on product costs. It aims to develop
products that are able to compete by achieving an optimum design in the product design …

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 …

Car body design in view of structural performance and lightweighting is a challenging task
due to all the performance targets that must be satisfied such as vehicle safety and ride …

To relieve the computational cost of design evaluations using expensive finite element (FE)
simulations, surrogate models have been widely applied in computer-aided engineering …

Tailor welded blanks (TWB) have been widely applied in automobile industry. This paper
firstly conducts experimental tests to investigate the crashworthiness of three different types …

The radial basis functions (RBF) interpolation model has been extensively used in various
engineering fields. All these applications call for accurate RBF models. The RBF predictions …

In the absence of instabilities, the large deterministic scales of turbomachinery flows
resulting from the periodic rotation of blades can be considered periodic in time. Such flows …

Crashworthiness is a measure to ensure that a vehicle is able to absorb energy of impact in
a crash and be safer for occupants. Generally, the experimental methods of crashworthiness …

In this paper, a new method is proposed to promote the efficiency and accuracy of nonlinear
interval-based programming (NIP) based on approximation models and a local-densifying …