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Energy-absorption characteristics of sandwich corrugated square tubes under axial crushing

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Sandwich thin-walled tubes can significantly improve the overall energy absorption due to the coupling effect. In this paper, a novel sandwich corrugated square tube (SCST), where corrugated square tubes were placed between inner square tube and outer square tube, was proposed. The crashworthiness analysis and coupling effect of the SCSTs were studied using Abaqus/Explicit. Results show that the energy absorption of SCSTs increases with the increase in amplitude and number of corrugations. The highest increase in EA, SEA, CFE reached 77.74%, 77.68%, 113.99%, respectively, while the largest decrease in Fmax reached by 20.17% compared to the linear sum of the three standalone structures in the SCSTs. Finally, parameterization study of SCSTs was system carried out.

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This work is supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 52065059) and Guangxi Science and Technology Base and Talent Special Project (No. 2020AC19011).

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  1. School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Wuzhou University, Wuzhou, 543002, Guangxi, China

    Xiaolin Deng

  2. School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Guilin University of Electronic Technology, Guilin, China

    Xiaolin Deng & Fuyun Liu

  3. State Key Laboratory of Advanced Design and Manufacturing for Vehicle Body, Hunan University, Changsha, 410082, Hunan, China

    Libo Cao

  4. College of Engineering, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China

    Guangwen Huang

  5. School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, China

    Jiale Huang

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Deng, X., Liu, F., Cao, L. et al. Energy-absorption characteristics of sandwich corrugated square tubes under axial crushing. J Braz. Soc. Mech. Sci. Eng. 44, 458 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40430-022-03704-7

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