Optimization of thin conical frusta for impact energy absorption

Thin-Walled Structures

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 653-666

  Mohamed Sheriff, N ^a   Gupta, N K ^b   Velmurugan, R ^c   Shanmugapriyan, N ^d  

^a SYED AMMAL ENGINEERING COLLEGE   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

^d Triad Software   (India)

Author keywords

Design space; DOE; Energy absorption; FEA; Genetic algorithm; RSM

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; THIN WALLED STRUCTURES;

DESIGN PARAMETERS; DESIGN SPACE; RESPONSE SURFACE METHODOLOGY (RSM); THIN CONICAL FRUSTA;

ENERGY ABSORPTION;

EID: 42649126399     PISSN: 02638231     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tws.2007.12.001     Document Type: Article

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