It is widely known that the demand for lightweight structures with excellent energy absorption
capacity is paramount in numerous engineering applications. Many publications have …

The ability of a vehicle to protect its occupants from serious injuries in the event of a collision
is defined as crashworthiness. The proper design of lightweight energy absorption …

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 …

Distinguished capabilities of cellular solids as high-performance energy absorbers can be
enhanced by engineering their underlying architectures. In this study, we classify different …

Thin-walled tubes filled with ultra-light materials have attracted much attention due to
excellent energy absorption characteristics. With the development of additive manufacturing …

New composite bio-inspired multi-cell metal tubes—lotus root inspired structures (LR-IS),
lotus root-horsetail inspired structures (LR-HS1 and LR-HS3) and lotus root-honeycomb …

In this paper, an innovative bio-inspired multi-layered graded foam-filled structure (MGFS)
mimicking the characteristics of the human skeleton was proposed in an attempt to improve …

Metallic lattice structures are garnering increasing attention across various research
domains for their potential to create lightweight yet high-strength solutions. Their appeal …

Honeycomb materials are often used as the inner core of composite sandwich structures
and are widely applied in impact resistance equipment design. Inspired by biomimetic …

In this work, a new type of energy-absorbing thin-walled tubes with concave angles is
proposed by a unique structural design method to improve the crashworthiness performance …