Crushing response of foam-filled conical tubes under quasi-static axial loading

Materials and Design

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 2393-2403

  Ahmad, Z ^a   Thambiratnam, D P ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Axial crushing; Conical tube; Energy absorption; Finite element; Foam filled

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION PERFORMANCE; AXIAL CRUSHING; AXIAL LOADINGS; CONICAL TUBE; EMPIRICAL RELATIONS; ENERGY ABSORBERS; FINITE ELEMENT; NON-LINEAR FINITE ELEMENTS; QUASI STATICS; SEMI-APICAL ANGLES; THIN-WALLED TUBES; WALL THICKNESS;

ABSORPTION; AXIAL LOADS; CRUSHING; ENERGY ABSORPTION; FILLING; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

TUBES (COMPONENTS);

EID: 67349173213     PISSN: 02641275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.matdes.2008.10.017     Document Type: Article

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