Investigation of lateral crushing of sandwich tubes

Procedia Engineering

Volumn 14, Issue , 2011, Pages 442-449

  Fan, Z ^a   Shen, J ^b   Lu, G ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aluminium foam; Crushing pattern; Energy absorption; Lateral crushing; Sandwich tubes

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION CHARACTERISTICS; ALUMINIUM FOAM; CIRCULAR TUBES; CRUSH BEHAVIOR; CRUSH STRENGTHS; ENERGY ABSORPTION CAPABILITY; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FOAM CORE; GEOMETRIC FEATURE; LATERAL CRUSHING; LOAD-DISPLACEMENT CURVE; NUMERICAL RESULTS; PROGRESSIVE COLLAPSE; QUASI-STATIC; SANDWICH TUBES; SYSTEMATIC INVESTIGATIONS; THICKNESS RATIO; THIN-WALLED;

ABSORPTION; ALUMINUM; CRUSHING; ENERGY ABSORPTION; EXPERIMENTS; STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

TUBES (COMPONENTS);

EID: 80054778231     PISSN: 18777058     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.proeng.2011.07.055     Document Type: Conference Paper

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