Crashworthiness of poplar wood veneer tubes

Multi-objective Crashworthiness Optimization of the Aluminum Foam-filled Tubes

In order to reduce both the weight of vehicles and the damage of occupants in a crash event simultaneously, it is necessary to perform a multi-objective optimization of the automotive energy absorbing components. In this paper, axial impact crushing behavior of the aluminum foam-filled thin-walled tubes are studied by the finite element method using commercial software ABAQUS. Comparison of the...

Modeling and Prediction of FRP Composite Cylinder tubes Crashworthiness Characteristics

In this paper, numerical simulation of FRP composite cylinder tubes progressive crushing processes is conducted using LS-Dyna. Details on the numerical modeling strategy are given and discussed. It is found that triggers introduced in the numerical simulation can effectively model the bevel trigger at the end of the tubular specimens. It is also found that two-layer finite element model based o...

EFFECTS Of TENSION WOOD IN HARDWOOD ILUMI3ER AND VENEER

A New Vision Inspection Method for Wood Veneer Classification

A vision-based inspection method based on rough set theory, fuzzy set and BP algorithm is presented. The rough set method is used to remove redundant features for its data analysis and procession ability. The reduced data is fuzzified to represent the feature data in a more suitable form as input data of a BP network classifier. By the experimental research, the hybrid method shows good classif...

Wood Veneer Species Recognition Using Markovian Textural Features

A mobile Android application that can automatically recognize wood species from a low quality mobile phone photo under varying illumination conditions is presented. The wood recognition is based on the Markovian, spectral, and illumination invariant textural features. The method performance was verified on a wood database, which contains veneers from sixty-six varied European and exotic wood sp...