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 …

Functionally graded thickness (FGT) is an innovative concept to create light-weight
structures with better material distribution and promising energy absorption characteristics …

This work proposes a method of energy absorption via phase change material (PCM)-filled
circular tubes with caps and orifices on their end surfaces. As a novel method of energy …

Cellular foams are a modern class of materials with unique mechanical properties that have
wide ranging engineering applications, in the areas of biomedical, acoustic and thermal …

Creatures in nature adapt to the environment by a long-term evolution, they often obtain the
optimization structures for hunting and self-defence. One such example is a marine …

It is advised to add cuts as circular holes to constructions' walls for technical requirements
such as the assembly and to reduce the weight. Since these induced cutouts have a …

This paper addresses the energy absorption behaviour and crashworthiness optimisation of
short length circular tubes under quasi-static lateral loading. Finite element (FE) models …

This paper presents the responses of nested tube systems under quasi-static and dynamic
lateral loading. Nested systems in the form of short internally stacked tubes were proposed …

A class of bionic gradient thickness (BGT) tubes with 2 cross-sectional shapes (circle and
rectangle) are proposed. The energy absorption and deformation modes of four thin-walled …

Literature on the mechanical performance of additively manufactured (AM) negative
Poisson's ratio (-υ) structures has been primarily focused on beam-based re-entrant …