Optimisation of double-tapered rectangular tube with O-shaped diaphragms as energy absorber

Author(s):  
Ping Xu ◽  
Ziliang Zhao ◽  
Zhaofeng Yi ◽  
Jie Xing ◽  
Alex Zeigle ◽  
...  
2021 ◽  
Vol 1802 (4) ◽  
pp. 042076
Author(s):  
Zhiqing Hu ◽  
Liming Guo ◽  
Yuheng Zhang

Author(s):  
Christophe Cochet ◽  
Ronald W. Yeung

The wave-energy absorber being developed at UC Berkeley is modeled as a moored compound cylinder, with an outer cylinder sliding along a tension-tethered inner cylinder. With rigid-body dynamics, it is first shown that the surge and pitch degrees of freedom are decoupled from the heave motion. The heaving motion of the outer cylinder is analyzed and its geometric proportions (radii and drafts ratios) are optimized for wave-energy extraction. Earlier works of Yeung [1] and Chau and Yeung [2,3] are used in the present heave-motion study. The coupled surge-pitch motion can be solved and can provide the contact forces between the cylinders. The concept of capture width is used to characterize the energy extraction: its maximization leads to optimal energy extraction. The methodology presented provides the optimal geometry in terms of non-dimensional proportions of the device. It is found that a smaller radius and deeper draft for the outer cylinder will lead to a larger capture width and larger resulting motion.


1971 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 423-425 ◽  
Author(s):  
EARL L. COUNCILL ◽  
ROSS L. GOBLE

Author(s):  
Jie Zhang ◽  
Qiufeng Yuan ◽  
Yiling Jiang ◽  
Hong Pang ◽  
Hamed Rajabi ◽  
...  

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adik Yadao ◽  
R. S. Hingole

Today’s car is one of the most important things in everyone’s life .Every person wants to have his or her own car but the question that arises in each buyer’s mind is whether the vehicle is safe enough to spend so much of money so it is the responsibility of an mechanical engineer to make the vehical comfortable and at the Same time safer. Now a days automakers are coming with various energy absorbing devices such as crush box, door beams etc. this energy absorbing device s prove to be very useful in reducing the amount force that is being transmitted to the occupant. In this we are using impact energy absorber in efficient manner as compare to earlier. The various steps involved in this project starting from developing the cad model of this inner impact energy absorber using the CAD software CATIA V5 R19. Then pre-processing is carried out in HYPERMESH 11.0 which includes assigning material, properties, boundary conditions such as contacts, constraints etc. LS-DYNA971 is used as a solver and LS-POST is used for the post processing and results obtained are compared to the standards. By carrying out this idea it has been observed that there is a considerable amount of energy that is being absorbed by this energy-absorbing device. Along with this energy absorption, the intrusion in passenger compartment is also reduced by considerable amount. So for safer and comfortable car with inner impact energy absorber is one of the best options available. This will get implement by this research work.


2010 ◽  
Vol 31 (7) ◽  
pp. 3568-3573 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.A. Reglero ◽  
E. Solórzano ◽  
M.A. Rodríguez-Pérez ◽  
J.A. de Saja ◽  
E. Porras

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