Experimental and numerical crashworthiness investigation of empty and foam-filled end-capped conical tubes

Thin-Walled Structures

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1312-1319

  Ghamarian, Ali ^a   Zarei, Hamid Reza ^a,b   Abadi, Mohammad Taha ^a  

^a AEROSPACE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Iran)

^b Aeronautical University   (Iran)

Author keywords

Axial crushing; End capped conical tubes; Energy absorption

Indexed keywords

AXIAL CRUSHING; COMBINED EFFECT; CRASH BEHAVIOR; CRASH PERFORMANCE; CYLINDRICAL TUBES; DEFENSE INDUSTRY; END-CAPPED CONICAL TUBES; ENERGY ABSORPTION CAPABILITY; ENERGY ABSORPTION CAPACITY; HIGH-ENERGY ABSORPTION; LIGHT WEIGHT; NON-LINEAR DYNAMICS; QUASI-STATIC TESTS; THIN-WALL STRUCTURES;

ABSORPTION; AEROSPACE INDUSTRY; CRASHWORTHINESS; CRUSHING; ENERGY ABSORPTION;

TUBES (COMPONENTS);

EID: 79960896600     PISSN: 02638231     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tws.2011.03.005     Document Type: Article

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