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 …

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 …

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 …

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

In the past decades, there has been a constant aspiration for light-weight and highly efficient
energy-absorbing structures and materials in vehicle and other industries. A large number of …

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 …

Many studies have focused on the topic of vehicle safety, including the study on
crashworthiness. In vehicle, a crash box structure is an integral component for ensuring the …

Functionally Graded (FG) structures are a novel design through which the material
properties vary smoothly and this feature leads these structures to have better mechanical or …

Hierarchical structures are widely observed in nature, and used in engineering due to
superior mechanical properties. In this paper, a novel hierarchical circular tube (HCT) by …