A novel origami crash box with varying profiles

Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference

Volumn 6 B, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Ma, Jiayao ^a   You, Zhong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAPSIBLE TUBES; CRUSHING; DESIGN;

AXIAL CRUSHING; COLLAPSE MODE; CRASH BOX; GEOMETRIC IMPERFECTION; PEAK FORCE; QUASI-STATIC; THIN WALLED TUBES;

ACCIDENTS;

EID: 84896915263     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/DETC2013-13495     Document Type: Conference Paper

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