Structural innovation incorporating bio-inspired composites poses a fresh angle to develop
novel lightweight forms with strengthened mechanical properties, among which a must …

Lightweight metallic cellular materials (MCMs) have been seen in numerous engineering
applications to date, primarily due to their excellent mechanical characteristics such as low …

Honeycombs are ultra-light materials with outstanding mechanical properties, which mainly
originate from their unit cell configurations rather than the properties of matrix materials …

A heat shield called the thermal protection system (TPS) is an important structure in
hypersonic vehicles as it prevents hot air from entering vehicles and potential impacts from …

This study proposed a new bio-inspired hierarchical circular honeycomb (BHCH), mimicking
the hierarchical structures from wood. The mechanical properties and energy absorption …

Following nature's design principles, biological entities have evolved to be highly efficient
and multifunctional to maximize all the available materials and structures and to survive in …

In this study, the dynamic crushing behaviour and energy absorption characteristics of a
novel bio-inspired hierarchical multi-cell square (BHMS) tubes were numerically and …

Previous studies have shown that the multi-cell bi-tubular tubes exhibit superior energy
absorption compared to the multi-cell tubes. To further improve the energy absorption of the …

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 …

The energy absorption potential of conventional thin-walled tubes is compromised by the
long-wavelength folding lobes, which result in a mean crushing force that is much smaller …