Analysis and optimization of externally stiffened crush tubes

Thin-Walled Structures

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 397-408

  Salehghaffari, S ^a   Rais Rohani, M ^a   Najafi, A ^a  

^a MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Axial crushing; Collapse modes; Energy absorbers; Optimization; Stiffened tubes

Indexed keywords

AXIAL COLLAPSE; AXIAL CRUSHING; COLLAPSE MODE; COLLAPSE RESPONSE; CRUSH TUBE; CYLINDRICAL TUBES; DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF COMPUTER EXPERIMENTS; DESIGN OPTIMIZATION; ENERGY ABSORBERS; GEOMETRIC PARAMETER; LONG TUBES; MACHINING PROCESS; META MODEL; MULTI-OBJECTIVE DESIGN OPTIMIZATION; NON-LINEAR FINITE-ELEMENT ANALYSIS; OPTIMUM DESIGNS; PROGRESSIVE COLLAPSE; QUASI-STATIC; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTIONS; RESPONSE CHARACTERISTIC; SIZE AND SHAPE; STEEL TUBE; STIFFENED TUBES; THIN WALLED TUBES; WALL THICKNESS;

ABSORPTION; COLLAPSIBLE TUBES; CRUSHING; DESIGN; ENERGY ABSORPTION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MACHINING; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION NETWORKS; TUBULAR STEEL STRUCTURES;

MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 79551596419     PISSN: 02638231     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tws.2010.11.010     Document Type: Article

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