Self-healing polymers and nanocomposites form an important class of responsive materials.
These materials have the capability to reversibly heal their damage. For aerospace …

Crashworthiness is the ability of civil aircraft fuselage structure and internal systems to
maximum protect the occupants' safety in a crash or emergency landing event, and is an …

The increasing use of composite materials in the aviation industry for the manufacture of
higher performance components required the introduction of efficient optimisation methods …

The crashworthy design, verification, and certification of civil aircraft fuselage structures are
extremely important for the aviation safety and the survivability of crew and passengers in a …

This work deals with the development of an improved numerical model, based on the explicit
finite element method, aimed at investigating the energy absorption capabilities of a full …

Airplanes are inevitably subjected to various impact loading conditions in the event of
emergency landing. An airplane crash scenario is a complex nonlinear impact event which …

Learning from natural materials, such as nacre, bone and spider silk, is an effective way to
develop future high-performance composite materials and structures. In this work, a …

Abstract Blended-Wing-Body (BWB) represents a promising direction for future civil aircraft
design due to its high aerodynamic efficiency. This study examines Pultruded Rod Stitched …

To collaboratively improve the lightweight and frontal collision safety performance of the
automobile body, the material–structure–performance integrated multi-objective optimization …

With the increasing development of micro aerial vehicle, the impact resistance of the
structure has gradually become a research hotspot. The beetle's exoskeleton not only …