Energy absorption of axially compressed thin-walled square tubes with patterns

Thin-Walled Structures

Volumn 45, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 737-746

  Zhang, Xiong ^a   Cheng, Gengdong ^a   You, Zhong ^b   Zhang, Hui ^a  

^a DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Axial crushing; Collapse mode; Energy absorption; Numerical simulation

Indexed keywords

AXIAL LOADS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEFORMATION; ENERGY ABSORPTION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

AXIAL CRUSHING; COLLAPSE MODE; OCTAGONAL COLLAPSE;

THIN WALLED STRUCTURES;

EID: 35548946317     PISSN: 02638231     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tws.2007.06.004     Document Type: Article

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