The effect of the implementation of circular holes as crush initiators to the crushing characteristics of mild steel square tubes: Experimental and numerical simulation

International Journal of Crashworthiness

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 489-501

  Mamalis, A G ^a   Manolakos, D E ^a   Spentzas, K N ^a   Ioannidis, M B ^a   Koutroubakis, S ^a   Kostazos, P K ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Crash analysis; Crashworthiness; Crush initiators; FE analysis; Thin walled structures

Indexed keywords

AXIAL COLLAPSE; AXIAL LOADING; CARGO DAMAGE; CIRCULAR HOLES; CRASH ANALYSIS; CRUSH INITIATORS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FE ANALYSIS; FINITE ELEMENT SIMULATIONS; GEOMETRICAL DISCONTINUITY; HOLE DIAMETER; LS-DYNA; MILD STEEL; NUMERICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PEAK LOAD; QUASI-STATIC; RESPONSE CHARACTERISTIC; SAFETY LIMITS; SQUARE STEEL TUBE; STEEL TUBE; STRUCTURAL COMPONENT; TEST SPECIMENS; TESTING RESULTS; THIN-WALLED; VEHICLE BODY;

AUTOMOBILE PARTS AND EQUIPMENT; AXIAL LOADS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRASHWORTHINESS; LOADING; METAL ANALYSIS; STEEL; STEEL METALLOGRAPHY; THIN WALLED STRUCTURES; TUBES (COMPONENTS); TUBULAR STEEL STRUCTURES;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 70349466591     PISSN: 13588265     EISSN: 17542111     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13588260902826547     Document Type: Article

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