Comparative analysis of energy absorption and deformations of thin walled tubes with various section geometries

Thin-Walled Structures

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 946-954

  Nia, Ali Alavi ^a   Hamedani, Jamal Haddad ^a  

^a BU ALI SINA UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Crushing; Energy absorption; Folding; Thin walled tube

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE FORCE; CIRCULAR TUBES; COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; ENERGY ABSORPTION CAPACITY; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FOLDING; IMPACT EVENTS; LOAD-DISPLACEMENT CURVE; QUASI-STATIC LOADING; THIN WALLED TUBES;

ABSORPTION; CRUSHING; DEFORMATION; ENERGY ABSORPTION; GEOMETRY; THIN WALLED STRUCTURES;

TUBES (COMPONENTS);

EID: 77956411497     PISSN: 02638231     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tws.2010.07.003     Document Type: Article

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