Axial Crushing in a Novel Technique of Thin-Walled Tube

Abstract:

Thin-walled tubes have always considered as energy absorption systems by researchers. This paper presents a new technique for energy absorption system which is simpler than other designs in production. This novel model is a thin-walled tube with perforation. During manufacturing process, equal numbers of holes are created in rows and columns in order to increase the energy absorption ability. In this article two different workpieces with the same geometry, one with holes and the other one with grooves, are compared to validate the model in accordance with other presented ones. For this purpose, specimens were modeled in finite element software ABAQUS with the same conditions and the amount of energy absorption, the initial decay, and the weight ratio of energy absorption (SEA) were evaluated. Then results which obtained from simulation are compared with experimental ones. Results confirmed that specimens with perforation have better decay symmetry rather than ones with grooves. In addition, force absorption in workpieces with hole is as twice as ones with grooves. The amounts of absorbed energy and SEA in workpieces with perforation are 56% and 46% more than workpieces with grooves, respectively.

• Periodical: Key Engineering Materials (Volumes 622-623)
• Pages: 709-716
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.622-623.709
• Online since: September 2014
• Authors: Majid Elyasi*, Amin Moradpour, Saharnaz Montazeri
• Keywords: Axial Crushing, Energy Absorption, Novel Technique, Thin-Walled Tube

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