Nature-inspired Protective Structures against Impulsive Loading

This thesis presents four novel energy-absorbing structures for protective applications against impulsive loading by mimicking the structural features and mechanisms found in nature. Each nature-inspired design exhibits sound crushing efficiency and unique energy absorption mechanisms under various...

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Main Author: Lam, Lalin
Format: Thesis
Published: Curtin University 2024
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/94974
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description This thesis presents four novel energy-absorbing structures for protective applications against impulsive loading by mimicking the structural features and mechanisms found in nature. Each nature-inspired design exhibits sound crushing efficiency and unique energy absorption mechanisms under various crushing scenarios. These include an excellent energy-absorbing structure with loading rate insensitivity of the peak crushing force, innovative structures with adaptive energy absorption performance and ideal crushing efficiency, and an energy-absorbing device with recoverable capability.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-949742024-05-03T00:52:21Z Nature-inspired Protective Structures against Impulsive Loading Lam, Lalin This thesis presents four novel energy-absorbing structures for protective applications against impulsive loading by mimicking the structural features and mechanisms found in nature. Each nature-inspired design exhibits sound crushing efficiency and unique energy absorption mechanisms under various crushing scenarios. These include an excellent energy-absorbing structure with loading rate insensitivity of the peak crushing force, innovative structures with adaptive energy absorption performance and ideal crushing efficiency, and an energy-absorbing device with recoverable capability. 2024 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/94974 Curtin University fulltext
spellingShingle Lam, Lalin
Nature-inspired Protective Structures against Impulsive Loading
title Nature-inspired Protective Structures against Impulsive Loading
title_full Nature-inspired Protective Structures against Impulsive Loading
title_fullStr Nature-inspired Protective Structures against Impulsive Loading
title_full_unstemmed Nature-inspired Protective Structures against Impulsive Loading
title_short Nature-inspired Protective Structures against Impulsive Loading
title_sort nature-inspired protective structures against impulsive loading
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/94974