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Numerical study of mechanical behaviour of tubular structures under dynamic compression

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This paper presents a novel point of view for the performance investigation and optimization of energy absorber devices, which is numerically introduced using the finite element method employing corrugated tubes. The numerical results show that structural or material softening leads to an optimal configuration at which the corrugated or circular tube achieves its peak performance. The performance and optimization parameters used in this study are absorbed crash energy and specific energy absorption. The force-displacement (f-d) diagram of the energy absorbers is divided into three parts for numerical investigation. The optimum point of each corrugated tube is observed when the values of energy absorption (EA) at different stages of the stroke (i.e., in the first, middle, and last portions of deformation) are almost equal or close to one another. Furthermore, the effect of material softening is discussed. The effects of cladding a ductile layer on f-d diagram, EA and deformation of thin-walled circular tubes are numerically investigated. Adding soft material layers oriented at 30° to 70° to the model can increase the performance of energy absorbers by approximately 10 % compared with the model that uses only the core material.

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Amir Partovi received his B.Sc. (Hons.) and two M.Sc. degrees in Mechanical and Structural Engineering from South Tehran University, Iran, Blekinge University, Sweden, and McMaster University, Canada, respectively. He is currently a Ph.D. student at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at McMaster University in Canada. His research interest includes computational mechanics, plasticity, fracture, and material modeling.

Mehdi Shahzamanian received his B.Sc. and two M.Sc. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Iran, University Putra Malaysia, and University of Mississippi, USA, respectively. He received his Ph.D. from McMaster University, Canada in 2020, and currently, he is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Alberta. His research interest is in computational mechanics.

Peidong Wu is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, McMaster University, Canada. He received his Ph.D. from Delft University of Technology. Dr. Wu has been working in the field of the mechanics of engineering materials and composites, especially in the constitutive modeling of large deformation of polymeric materials and polycrystalline metals.

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Partovi, A., Shahzamanian, M.M. & Wu, P.D. Numerical study of mechanical behaviour of tubular structures under dynamic compression. J Mech Sci Technol 35, 1129–1142 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12206-021-0226-8

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