Energy absorption characteristics of thin-walled sinusoidal corrugated tube using RSM-CCD

Abstract

The axial crushing behaviour of tubes of different section shapes has been extensively investigated as they have an excellent energy absorption, but the thin walled corrugated tube structures have been designed to further improve their energy absorption performance. The study aims to analyze the effect of sinusoidal corrugations along cross section of the tube on peak force, energy absorption and specific energy absorption. In the present work the response surface methodology (RSM) using central composite design (CCD) has been used and simulation work is performed by using ANSYS workbench to explore the effects of geometrical parameters on the responses of constructing models.

Keywords

• response surface method (rsm)
• corrugated tubes
• energy absorption characteristics
• finite element analysis
• thin-walled structure maximum