The main objective of this research is to improvethe design and performance of the polyurethane foam-filled thin-walled aluminum grooved circular tubes using multi-response optimization (MRO) technique. The tubes are shaped with the inner and the outer circular grooves at different positions along the axis. For this aim, several numerical simulations using ABAQUS finite element explicit code ar...

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are allotropes of carbon with a cylindrical nanostructure. Nanotubes have been synthesized with length-to-diameter ratio of up to 132,000,000 : 1, which is significantly greater than any other material. These cylindrical carbon molecules have novel properties which make them potentially useful in many applications in nanotechnology, electronics, optics, and other fields ...

Abstract This paper focuses on microstructural and mechanical characterization of metallic thin-walled tube produced with additive manufacturing (AM), as a promising alternative technique for the tubes feedstock stents micromachining. Tubes, wall thickness 500 ? m, were made 316L stainless steel using selective laser melting. Its surface roughness, constituting phases, underlying microstructure...

Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) demonstrate remarkable electronic and mechanical properties useful in developing areas such as nanoelectromechanical systems and flexible electronics. However, the highly inhomogeneous electronic distribution arising from different diameters and chirality in any given as-synthesized SWNT samples imposes severe limitations. Recently demonstrated selective c...

Thin-walled structures are widely used in anti-collision devices for various vehicles due to their light weight and high energy absorption. Offset collision is a common scene traffic accidents. Because the commonly thin-walled do not consider this complex method, absorption effect of structure cannot meet requirements. In paper, C-shaped frame composed steel tubes proposed. The configuration st...

High engineering requirements of shock absorbers have increased interest in auxetic materials, which higher specific energy absorption performance compared to conventional solid absorbers. Last decade, many optimization studies were conducted improve the tubular structures. Most focused on adding inner and outer shells thin-walled with different types lattice structures enhance cylindrical sand...

The structure and the electronic properties of single-walled zigzag BN and B3C2N3 nanotubes (n, 0; n=4–10) were investigated using first-principles calculations based on a density functional theory. A plane–wave basis set with periodic boundary conditions in conjunction with Vanderbilt ultrasoft pseudo-potential was employed. The energy gap of ZB3C<su...