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Innovative Thin-Walled Structure with Transverse Negative Poisson's Ratio for High-Performance Crashworthiness

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In this paper, an innovative type of thin-walled structures, the convex-concave honeycomb columns (CCHCs) with transverse negative Poisson’s ratio (NPR), is proposed for energy absorbers by replacing the cell walls of square honeycomb lattice columns with sine-shaped or zigzag-shaped walls of equal mass. Numerical simulations show that, under axial impact, contrary to the conventional square honeycomb columns of equal mass, the transverse cross section of NPR CCHC shrinks inward, making the cell walls of CCHC contact and interact sufficiently with each other and thus dissipate the impact energy much more effectively. By suitably adjusting the transverse NPR, the CCHC can have the combined advantages of effective total energy absorption, high specific energy absorption and low maximum peak crushing force. The research of this paper provides a new strategy for the design of high-performance energy absorbers widely used in the engineering fields of vehicle engineering, aerospace engineering etc.

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We appreciated Zhichang Qin for analysis data of the manuscript.

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The project was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 12021002, 12072222, 12132010 and 11991032) and the State Key Laboratory of Mechanical Behavior and System Safety of Traffic Engineering Structures (Grant No. SKLTESKF1901).

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  2. Department of Mechanics and Tianjin Key Laboratory of Nonlinear Dynamics and Control, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300350, China

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B.W. analyzed and interpreted accurate finite element model of the Convex-concave honeycomb, and was a major contributor in writing the manuscript. Y.S. performed the result examination of the Convex-concave honeycomb. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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Wang, B., Sun, Y. Innovative Thin-Walled Structure with Transverse Negative Poisson's Ratio for High-Performance Crashworthiness. Acta Mech. Solida Sin. 36, 34–44 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10338-022-00356-x

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