Papers by Author: Duo Dong

Abstract: Crashworthiness is one of the most important characteristics in automobile design, which is inflected by a large number of different factors, the influences of all these factors on crashworthiness are not identical. In order to screen the factors which influence the crashworthiness of the automobile most remarkablely, the graphics analysis method of the unreplicated saturated factorial design was employed. It is more and more widely used in the screening of factors because of its huge benefit in economic and the technical reason. The paper applied half-normal probability plot method to get the active and sensitive factors, and D-optimal design was employed to choose design sample points. The full quadratic polynomial approximation model was used to construct the response surface model of the internal energy. Finally, Multi-Island Genetic Algorithm was utilized to obtain the optimal solution of the multivariable crashworthiness optimization of the vehicle body under the full-scale frontal impact load.

Abstract: Due to the excellent mechanical properties combined with high strength to weight ratio, honeycomb sandwich panels (HSP) are used increasingly in aerospace, automobile and marine industries. In order to improve the crashworthiness of vehicle body, it is of great significance to study the energy absorption characteristics of the components. For this reason, specific energy absorption (SEA: the energy absorption per unit mass) of HSP was selected to be the objective function in order to find an optimal design of HSP under impact loading. The explicit finite element analysis (FEA) was used to derive response surface (RS) model of SEA, and a single-objective optimization was performed to get the optimal design. Before the optimization design of HSP, the energy-absorptions of HSP and the honeycomb core (HC) were compared with each other. It was found that HSP could absorb much more impact energy than HC due to the stabilizing effect of the face sheets during the process of crushing.