Energy absorbing structures imitating trabecular of beetle cuticles

Gongcheng Lixue/Engineering Mechanics

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Guo, Ting ^a   Wang, Yue Fang ^a,b  

^a DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b STATE KEY LABORATORY OF STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS FOR INDUSTRIAL EQUIPMENT   (China)

Author keywords

ANSYS LS DYNA; Beetle cuticle; Bionics; Circular tube; Energy absorbing device

Indexed keywords

ANSYS/LS-DYNA; AXIAL IMPACT; BEETLE CUTICLE; BODY STRUCTURE; CIRCULAR TUBES; CYLINDRICAL TUBES; ENERGY ABSORBING DEVICE; ENERGY ABSORBING STRUCTURE; IMPROVED MODELS; NON-LINEAR FINITE ELEMENTS; ORIGINAL MODEL; STATIC AND DYNAMIC; TRABECULAR STRUCTURE;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CYLINDERS (SHAPES); ENERGY ABSORPTION; TUBES (COMPONENTS);

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 79953020762     PISSN: 10004750     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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