TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2002//
TI  - Quasi-Static Response of Laterally Simple Compressed Hexagonal Rings
JO  - International journal of crashworthiness
A1  - Said, MR
A1  - Reddy, TY
SP  - 345
EP  - 363
VL  - 7
IS  - 3
N2  - This paper presents a study on the load-compression and energy absorption characteristics of a laterally simple crushed hexagonal ring. Two cases are considered : crushed across faces and corners. The initial part in the load-displacement trace shows a linear elastic characteristic followed by a non-linear elastic-plastic regime before collapse. The collapse load in ring compressed across faces is higher than that compressed across corner by factor of 1.8 for all cases. A simple but elegant analysis is also carried out. Experimental observations are compared with simple theoretical analyses as well as Finite Element formulation and good agreements are seen.     <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1358-8265
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -