Over the past few decades, there has been a constant pursuit for lightweight and high-
performance energy absorption structures and materials in automobiles, trains, ships …

Over the past several decades, a noticeable amount of research efforts has been directed to
minimising injuries and death to people inside a structure that is subjected to an impact …

In recent years, auxetic structures have been applied in the energy absorption field due to
the unique mechanical properties. Inspired by foam filled structures, this study proposes a …

Bio-inspired thin-walled structures have gained growing interests attributed to their excellent
performance of energy absorption and lightweight. This study proposes a novel energy …

Functional graded cellular materials (FGCMs) have attracted increasing attentions for their
improved properties when compared to uniform cellular structures. In this work, graded …

This paper designs a novel reusable gradient negative stiffness (GNS) honeycomb structure
and focuses on investigating its energy absorption (EA). Contrary to classical normal …

Energy absorbing structures made from composite materials are lightweight, fuel
economical and environmentally friendly. In spite of these advantages, some issues have to …

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 …

Origami-inspired structures and mechanical metamaterials are often made up of individual
tessellating repeat units, the folding and relative geometry of which determine the overall …

Multi-cell thin-walled structures have proven fairly effective in energy absorption and have
been extensively used in vehicle engineering. However, the effects of multi-cell …