Dynamic crushing behavior of honeycomb structures with irregular cell shapes and non-uniform cell wall thickness

Dynamic crushing and energy absorption of regular, irregular and functionally graded cellular structures

Please cite this article in press as: Ajdari, A., et a Int. J. Solids Struct. (2010), doi:10.1016/j.ijsolst The in-plane dynamic crushing of two dimensional honeycombs with both regular hexagonal and irregular arrangements was investigated using detailed finite element models. The energy absorption of honeycombs made of a linear elastic-perfectly plastic material with constant and functionally ...

Analysis of Free Vibration of Triangular Plates with Non-Uniform Linear Thickness and Arbitrary Boundary Conditions

Analysis of Free Vibration of Triangular Plates with Non-Uniform Linear Thickness and Arbitrary Boundary Conditions

Experimental and Numerical Studies on the Characteristics of Simple and Multi-cell Shapes of Quasi-hemisphere Thin-walled Structures

 Thin-walled energy absorbers are used to reduce accident induced damages. In this study, thin-walled stainless steel structures in quasi-hemisphere geometry were subjected under quasi-static loading with Santam 150KN apparatus. Experimental results were compared with results of numerical simulations by LS-DYNA and it was shown that there is a good agreement between experimental and numerical r...

Prediction of Crushing Behaviour of Honeycomb Structure

A finite element methodology has been developed for predicting the behaviour of honeycomb structures. Dynamic analysis of hexagonal aluminium honeycomb structures is carried out using PAM-CRASH, an explicit FE analysis code, and the result are verified against experimental data. Relationship between the crushing behaviour of honeycomb and simulation parameters has been established. The simulati...