Lightweight materials and structures have attracted tremendous interests for their compelling
advantages in a range of engineering problems that have placed heightened requirements …

The enhancement of fuel economy and the emission of greenhouse gases are the key
growing challenges around the globe that drive automobile manufacturers to produce …

In this paper, rigid polyurethane (PU) foam was filled into hollow auxetic tube for enhancing
the energy absorption. The rigid PU foams and stainless-steel auxetic tube with different …

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

Novel fiber-metal hybrid tubes with overlapped fiber reinforced plastics (FRP) and aluminum
layers were proposed in this paper. By combining progressive failure behavior of …

Thin-walled hollow structures capable of large plastic deformations are ubiquitously present
in sacrificial, high-capacity energy absorbers. A significant challenge in the field of structural …

The goal of this work is to experimentally explore the crashworthiness performance and the
deformation history of hybrid thin‐walled composite tubes. Glass (G)/carbon (C) reinforced …

Introducing origami with outstanding flexibility into thin-walled tubes can enhance their
energy absorption performance. This paper first proposes a cutting and folding-based …

The present paper experimentally explores the influence of the fiber hybridization and
layering sequence on crashworthiness behavior and deformation history of polymer/metal …

The crash box is a structural component which is widely used in transport vehicles. It is
designed to collapse and absorb kinetic energy in a low-speed collision. In this paper, we …