Crashworthiness design for foam filled thin-wall structures

Materials and Design

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 2024-2032

  Hou, Shujuan ^a   Li, Qing ^b   Long, Shuyao ^a   Yang, Xujing ^a   Li, Wei ^b  

^a HUNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aluminum foam; Crashworthiness; Design optimization; Multicriteria; Multiobjective; Response surface method

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM FOAM; DESIGN OPTIMIZATION; MULTICRITERIA; MULTIOBJECTIVE; RESPONSE SURFACE METHOD;

ABSORPTION; ALUMINA; ALUMINUM; ALUMINUM POWDER METALLURGY; CRASHWORTHINESS; CRUSHING; DESIGN; ENERGY ABSORPTION; FILLERS; MODEL STRUCTURES; SHAPE OPTIMIZATION; SURFACE PROPERTIES; THIN WALLED STRUCTURES;

MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 63049132450     PISSN: 02641275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.matdes.2008.08.044     Document Type: Article

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