Lateral Crushing of New Design Cross-Sections
Author(s):
Omar Abdulhasan Lafta*, Minah Mohammed Fareed
Affiliation(s):
Al-Musaib Technical College, Al-Furat Al-Awsat Technical University, Babel, Iraq
Corresponding Author Email: [email protected]
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Energy can be absorbed through deformation of different shapes of structures plastically. In this work, new design of aluminum (6060-T6) that consist of outer octagon tube with different shapes of inner tubes were exposed to lateral quasi-static loading. The behavior of tested systems and amount of dissipated energy were conducted numerically by ABAQUS commercial code. Different inner tubes shapes were investigated to compare between systems. The results cleared that the triangular system was most efficient to absorb lateral energy and to use as super energy absorber design.