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5.4. The Crashworthiness Optimization of Tubular Structures<br />

The crushing behavior of multi-corner, thin-walled columns was previously<br />

optimized using RSM (Liu 2008a). The wall thickness and <strong>cross</strong>-<strong>section</strong> edge length<br />

were selected independent variables for the maximization of SEA. In another study, a<br />

square crush box with multi-cell <strong>section</strong>s was optimized with optimum cell numbers<br />

and cell geometrical parameters using again RMS (Hou, et al. 2008). The objective<br />

functions including linear, quadratic, cubic, quadratic and quintic polynomial were<br />

implemented, while the minimum error was accomplished by using a quadratic<br />

polynomial objective function. In a study of the multi-objective optimization of the<br />

frontal crush of an automobile chassis, RSM and radial basis function methodology<br />

were implemented together for comparison purpose (Fang, et al. 2005). Both were<br />

shown to be effective in the optimization of the intricate structure of automobile frontal<br />

<strong>section</strong>. RMS was also applied to determine the optimum thickness and radius of a<br />

cylindrical shell type tubular structure (Yamazaki and Han 2000). An orthogonal<br />

polynomial function was chosen as objective function and an orthogonal sampling array<br />

was implemented to create the response surface. Additionally, dynamic tests were<br />

carried out in order to validate objective function. The <strong>crash</strong>worthiness optimization of<br />

the circular Al tubes was studied by Zarei and Kröger, (Zarei and Kröger 2006).<br />

Various shapes of the impact side of circular tubes were investigated for the<br />

maximization of crush performance (Chiandussi and Avalle 2002). The taper length and<br />

the smallest diameter of tube were selected independent variable and the load<br />

uniformity (maximum load divided by mean load) dependent variable. The<br />

minimization of the load uniformity was applied to, in an separate study, the<br />

optimization of corrugated circular and tapered rectangular tubes (Avalle, et al. 2002).<br />

The shape optimization of a non-uniform closed hat front <strong>crash</strong> absorber <strong>section</strong><br />

of an automobile was studied using RSM by Y.-B Cho et al.(Cho, et al. 2006). Two<br />

different crush initiator shapes, rectangular hole-type and circular dent-type, were<br />

investigated to maximize the crush energy absorption. A <strong>cross</strong>-<strong>section</strong> shape<br />

optimization study was further performed by Giess and Tomas (Giess 1998) by<br />

implementing the average mean crushing load as an objective function. The constraint<br />

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