Axial Compression Study of Crash Boxes with Various Honeycomb Structures
Main Article Content
Abstract
In recent times, automotive manufacturing companies are focusing on developing components that is capable of increasing safety features associated with lightweight materials such as using aluminium. One such innovation is providing the vehicle with crash box, which is generally located at the front bumper. The function of the crash box is to safeguard the passenger by absorbing the kinetic energy of collision and self-deformation. In this paper, the authors presented a study of the compressive test applied on crash boxes with different types of honeycomb sandwich circular columns using 3D virtual modelling and finite element (FE) simulation with the help of Solidworks and Ansys Workbench respectively. This sandwich structure comprises two circular aluminium tubes filled with core shaped as a large-cell honeycomb lattice. Here, the crash boxes with three different honeycomb sandwich circular columns i.e., hexagonal, triangular, and semi-circular arrangement, were investigated and the energy absorption capabilities of these columns were studied. FE simulations were used to evaluate maximum stress that a material can sustain over a period under a load, material deformation, geometric changes, and load-displacement results using a constant material property of that of aluminium alloy, and the results of the three different arrangements were compared and it is known that the crash box with semi-circular arrangement has high energy absorbing capacity.
Article Details
Issue
Section
Articles
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms: a. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication, with the work two years after publication simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal. b. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal. c. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).