Since train’s frontal nose is the first part of the train which is damaged at the frontal impact, specific attention should be paid to the design of this part. In this study, an effort has been conducted to the design of a nose with light weight which can absorb maximum amount of energy that is possible during a frontal collision. To this aim and with attention to aerodynamic considerations, application of aluminium honeycomb sandwich panel has been studied. This paper includes two main parts. The first part is dedicated to the simulation of aluminium honeycomb sandwich panel, while the frontal collision of nose with different internal layer thicknesses of honeycomb and various nose lengths have been simulated in the second part. Finite element method using LS-DYNA commercial package has been used for the numerical simulation. The results have been validated with available experimental results and an acceptable agreement has been observed.


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    Title :

    Application of aluminium honeycomb sandwich panel as an energy absorber of high-speed train nose


    Contributors:
    Amraei, M. (author) / Shahravi, M. (author) / Noori, Z. (author) / Lenjani, A. (author)

    Published in:

    Publication date :

    2014


    Size :

    11 Seiten, 14 Quellen




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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