Crushing analysis and multiobjective crashworthiness optimization of honeycomb-filled single and bitubular polygonal tubes

Materials and Design

Volumn 32, Issue 8-9, 2011, Pages 4449-4460

  Yin, Hanfeng ^a   Wen, Guilin ^a   Hou, Shujuan ^a   Chen, Kai ^b  

^a HUNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Qingdao Sifang Rolling Stock Research Institute Co Ltd   (China)

Author keywords

A. Non ferros metals and alloys; B. Honeycombs; E. Impact and ballistic

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; CRASHWORTHINESS; CRUSHING; ENERGY ABSORPTION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HONEYCOMB STRUCTURES; METALLURGY; PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION (PSO); TUBES (COMPONENTS);

ABSORPTION CHARACTERISTICS; B. HONEYCOMBS; COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; CRASH SIMULATION; CRASHWORTHINESS OPTIMIZATION; E. IMPACT AND BALLISTIC; ENERGY ABSORPTION CAPACITY; JUDGEMENT METHOD; LS-DYNA; META MODEL; METALS AND ALLOYS; MULTI OBJECTIVE; MULTI OBJECTIVE PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION; NON-LINEAR FINITE-ELEMENT ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; QUARTIC POLYNOMIAL; SPECIFIC ENERGY ABSORPTION;

MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 79957839907     PISSN: 02613069     EISSN: 18734197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.matdes.2011.03.060     Document Type: Article

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