Journal
ADVANCES IN ENGINEERING SOFTWARE
Volume 99, Issue -, Pages 27-35Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.advengsoft.2016.05.001
Keywords
Foam-filled double ellipse tube; Crashwothiness; Multiobjective optimization; Multiple loading
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- Scientific Research and Industry Promotion Project of Jiangsu Provincial Education Department, China [BY2014004-04]
- Scientific Research and Industry Promotion Project of Nanjing [201306011]
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In this paper, a novel foam-filled double ellipse tube (F-DET) is proposed. First, the circle and ellipse tubes with three different configurations(hollow, foam-filled, double foam-filled) are investigated under axial and oblique impact by using the nonlinear finite element code LS-DYNA. The numerical results showed that the F-DET tube has the best crashworthiness performance than tubes with other configurations. Then to optimize the F-DET tube, the Kriging model about the radial rate f, thickness of wall t and foam density rho(f) is constructed. Based on the Kriging model, the multiobjective particle swarm optimization (MOPSO) algorithm is utilized to achieve the optimized F-DET tube, foam-filled ellipse(F-ET) tube and foam-filled double circle(F-DCT) tube on the maximizing specific energy absorption (SEA) and minimizing peak crush force (PCF) under multiple loading angles. It can be found that the F-DET tube has better crashworthiness performance than F-ET tube and F-DCT tube. This indicates F-DET tube can be a potential energy absorber under the multiple loading cases. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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