Experimental and numerical study of the crushing behavior of pultruded composite tube structure

• Main Authors: Mohd Kamal Mohd Shah, Yeo Kiam Beng @ Abdul Noor, Sanjay Mohan, Mohd Nizam Husen, Irma Othman, Yen Pin Tan
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston 2020
• Subjects: T Technology (General); TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
• Online Access: https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/26214/1/Experimental%20and%20numerical%20study%20of%20the%20crushing%20behavior%20of%20pultruded%20composite%20tube%20structure.pdf; https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/26214/; https://doi.org/10.1515/polyeng-2020-0052
• Institution: Universiti Malaysia Sabah

Pultrusion is considered to be a cost efficient method for developing composite structures. It facilitates the fabrication of uniform cross-section products with improved fiber alignment, mechanical properties, good surface characteristics, etc. In order to ascertain the crashworthiness, the pultrud...