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Laminate tailoring of composite tubular structures to improve crashworthiness design at off-axis loading

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dc.creator Rabiee, Ali
dc.creator Ghasemnejad, Hessam
dc.date 2018-07-12T13:47:30Z
dc.date 2018-07-12T13:47:30Z
dc.date 2018-07-10
dc.date.accessioned 2022-05-25T16:37:07Z
dc.date.available 2022-05-25T16:37:07Z
dc.identifier A. Rabiee and H. Ghasemnejad. Laminate tailoring of composite tubular structures to improve crashworthiness design at off-axis loading. Open Journal of Composite Materials, Vol.8 No.3(2018), Article ID:85887
dc.identifier 2164-5612
dc.identifier http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/ojcm.2018.83008
dc.identifier http://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/13339
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/182197
dc.description This paper presents experimental and numerical investigation on the parameters effecting energy absorption capability of composite tubular structures at oblique loading to improve crashworthiness performance. Various inclined angles of 5˚, 10˚, 20˚ and 30˚ were selected for the study of off-axis loading. The results indicate that by increasing the lateral inclination angle the mean crushing force and also energy absorption capability of all tested sections decreased. From design perspective, it is necessary to investigate the parameters effecting this phenomenon. The off-axis loading effect that causes significant reduction in energy absorption was investigated and the effected parameters were improved to increase energy absorption capability. To establish this study, 10˚ off-axis loading was chosen to illustrate the obtained improvement in energy absorption capability. Five cases were studied with combinations of ply-orientation and flat trimming with 45˚ chamfer. This method was applied to the integrated 10˚ off-axis loading and the final results showed significant improvement in energy absorption capability of composite absorbers. Finite element model (FEM) was developed to simulate the crushing process of axial and off-axis composite section in LS-DYNA and the results were in good agreement with the experimental data.
dc.language en
dc.publisher Scientific Research Publishing
dc.rights Attribution 4.0 International
dc.rights http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject Crashworthiness
dc.subject Composites
dc.subject Laminate Tailoring
dc.subject Off-Axis
dc.subject Oblique
dc.title Laminate tailoring of composite tubular structures to improve crashworthiness design at off-axis loading
dc.type Article


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