New insights into the collapsing of cylindrical thin-walled tubes under axial impact load

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science

Volumn 221, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 869-885

  Shakeri, M ^a   Mirzaeifar, R ^a   Salehghaffari, S ^a  

^a AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Axial crushing; Circular tubes; Genetic algorithm; Neural networks; Plastic buckling modes

Indexed keywords

ABAQUS; AXIAL LOADS; BUCKLING; COLLAPSIBLE TUBES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; NEURAL NETWORKS; RINGS (COMPONENTS);

AXIAL IMPACT LOAD; AXISYMMETRIC PLASTIC BUCKLING MODE; INITIAL GEOMETRIC IMPERFECTION; THIN-WALLED TUBES;

THIN WALLED STRUCTURES;

ABAQUS; AXIAL LOADS; BUCKLING; COLLAPSIBLE TUBES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; NEURAL NETWORKS; RINGS (COMPONENTS); THIN WALLED STRUCTURES;

EID: 34548426602     PISSN: 09544062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1243/09544062JMES562     Document Type: Article

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