<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The axial crushing behaviour of tubes of different section shapes has been extensively investigated as they have an excellent energy absorption, but the thin walled corrugated tube structures have been designed to further improve their energy absorption performance. The study aims to analyze the effect of sinusoidal corrugations along cross section of the tube on peak force, energy absorption and specific energy absorption. In the present work the response surface methodology (RSM) using central composite design (CCD) has been used and simulation work is performed by using ANSYS workbench to explore the effects of geometrical parameters on the responses of constructing models.</p></abstract>

The axial crushing behaviour of tubes of different section shapes has been extensively investigated as they have an excellent energy absorption, but the thin walled corrugated tube structures have been designed to further improve their energy absorption performance. The study aims to analyze the effect of sinusoidal corrugations along cross section of the tube on peak force, energy absorption and specific energy absorption. In the present work the response surface methodology (RSM) using central composite design (CCD) has been used and simulation work is performed by using ANSYS workbench to explore the effects of geometrical parameters on the responses of constructing models.

Energy absorption characteristics of thin-walled sinusoidal corrugated tube using RSM-CCD

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The axial crushing behaviour of tubes of different section shapes has been extensively investigated as they have an excellent energy absorption, but the thin...

Energy absorption characteristics of thin-walled sinusoidal corrugated tube using RSM-CCD

Published Online: Dec 31, 2020

Page range: 144 - 153

Received: Oct 25, 2020

Accepted: Nov 30, 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.30657/pea.2020.26.27

Keywords
response surface method (RSM), corrugated tubes, energy absorption characteristics, finite element analysis, thin-walled structure maximum

© 2020 Mohd. Reyaz Ur Rahim et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Energy absorption characteristics of thin-walled sinusoidal corrugated tube using RSM-CCD

Published Online: Dec 31, 2020

Page range: 144 - 153

Received: Oct 25, 2020

Accepted: Nov 30, 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.30657/pea.2020.26.27

Keywordsresponse surface method (RSM), corrugated tubes, energy absorption characteristics, finite element analysis, thin-walled structure maximum

© 2020 Mohd. Reyaz Ur Rahim et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Keywords
response surface method (RSM), corrugated tubes, energy absorption characteristics, finite element analysis, thin-walled structure maximum