In this paper, a multi-cell design method with built-in stiffeners is proposed to improve the crashworthiness of metal circular tubes. In the study, multi-cell circular tubes with three different stiffeners (Line, Waved, Polyline) were subjected to compression tests under quasi-static load. The finite element model of the metal circular tube was validated by ABAQUS/EXPLICIT, and the geometry of the stiffener was designed on this basis. The results showed that the energy absorption of the multi-cell tube was significantly better than that of the initial tube. Further, ‘Waved’ and ‘Polyline’ are more conducive to improving the crashworthiness of the multi-cell tube from the geometric design of the stiffeners. Through the analysis of load-displacement responses and crashworthiness indexs, it was found that the more the number of ‘Waved’ or ‘Polyline’ (from 2 to 8), the better the energy absorption of the multi-cell tubes and the smaller the load fluctuation. In addition the effect of the number of stiffeners on energy absorption was also revealed.


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    Title :

    Multi-cell designs for improving crashworthiness of metal tube under the axial crushing load


    Contributors:
    Yang, Hongyuan (author) / Ren, Yiru (author) / Yan, Lingbo (author)

    Published in:

    Publication date :

    2023-05-04


    Size :

    13 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    Unknown




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