Crushing analysis and multiobjective crashworthiness optimization of tapered square tubes under oblique impact loading

Thin-Walled Structures

Volumn 59, Issue , 2012, Pages 103-119

  Qi, Chang ^a   Yang, Shu ^a   Dong, Fangliang ^a  

^a DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Crashworthiness; Energy absorption; Load uncertainty; Multiobjective optimization; Oblique impact; Tapered tube

Indexed keywords

ABSORBING COMPONENTS; AXISYMMETRIC; COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; CRASH BEHAVIOR; CRASH PERFORMANCE; CRASH SIMULATION; CRASHWORTHINESS OPTIMIZATION; FULL FACTORIAL DESIGN; GEOMETRIC PARAMETER; LOAD ANGLE; LOAD UNCERTAINTY; LS-DYNA; MOD PROCESS; MULTI OBJECTIVE; MULTI OBJECTIVE PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION; MULTICELL; NON-LINEAR FINITE-ELEMENT ANALYSIS; OBLIQUE IMPACT; OPTIMAL DESIGN; PARAMETRIC STUDY; RESPONSE SURFACE MODELS; SAMPLING DESIGN; SPECIFIC ENERGY ABSORPTION; SURROGATE MODEL; TAPERED TUBES; THIN-WALLED; UNCERTAINTY EFFECTS; WEIGHTING FACTORS;

CELLS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRASHWORTHINESS; CRUSHING; CYTOLOGY; DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; ENERGY ABSORPTION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; TUBES (COMPONENTS);

MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 84862124525     PISSN: 02638231     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tws.2012.05.008     Document Type: Article

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