Dynamic lateral crushing of empty and sandwich tubes

• Main Authors: Fan, Zhihua., Shen, Jianhu., Lu, Guoxing., Ruan, Dong.
• Other Authors: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Mechanical engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/103170; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/16913
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The dynamic lateral crushing behaviour of short empty and sandwich circular tubes is examined in this paper. Unlike the conventional impact method, the specimens were placed on the bottom platen of an Instron machine with a constant upwards velocity and then the tube collided with the fixed upper ri...