Optimization of the foam-filled aluminum tubes for crush box application

Thin-Walled Structures

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 214-221

  Zarei, H R ^a   Kroger M ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

D optimal design of experiments; Dynamic crush; Foam filled tube; Multiobjective optimization

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY ABSORPTION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION; TUBES (COMPONENTS);

DYNAMIC CRUSH; FOAM-FILLED ALUMINUM TUBES; OPTIMUM TUBE GEOMETRY; SQUARE RECTANGULAR TUBES;

ALUMINUM;

EID: 38749106248     PISSN: 02638231     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tws.2007.07.016     Document Type: Article

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