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CHAPTER 4 EXPERIMENTAL DETAILS .............................................................. 65<br />
4.1. Compression Testing of Aluminum Foam ............................................ 65<br />
4.2. Empty and Aluminum Foam Filled 1050Aluminum Crash Boxes ....... 67<br />
4.3. Tensile Testing of 1050H14 Al ........................................................... 72<br />
4.4. Compression Tests of Crash Boxes ...................................................... 73<br />
4.5. Quasi-static Compression Testing of Empty and Aluminum<br />
Foam Filled 1050Aluminum Crash Boxes ........................................... 74<br />
4.5.1. Uniaxial compression testing of <strong>crash</strong> <strong>boxes</strong> at different<br />
strain rates ...................................................................................... 74<br />
4.5.2. Uniaxial Compression Testing of Empty Original Crash<br />
Boxes ............................................................................................. 75<br />
4.5.3. Uniaxial Compression Testing of Empty and Partially Foam<br />
Filled Crash Box without Montage Parts ....................................... 75<br />
4.5.4. Uniaxial Compression Testing of Empty and Partially Foam<br />
Filled Crash Box with Montage Plates .......................................... 77<br />
4.6. Initial Dynamic Testing of Empty and Aluminum Foam Filled<br />
1050Aluminum Crash Boxes with Fixing Plates .................................. 79<br />
CHAPTER 5 SIMULATION AND OPTIMIZATION OF EMPTY AND<br />
PARTIALLY ALUMINUM FOAM FILLED CRASH BOXES ......... 81<br />
5.1. Material Modeling ................................................................................ 81<br />
5.1.1. 1050H14 Base Material ................................................................. 81<br />
5.1.2. Aluminum Foam Modeling ........................................................... 84<br />
5.2. Quasi-static and Dynamic Simulation of Crashing Behavior of<br />
Empty and Foam Filled 1050H14 Al Crash Box .................................. 87<br />
5.3. The response surface methodology ....................................................... 90<br />
5.4. The Crashworthiness optimization of tubular structures ...................... 96<br />
5.5. Optimization of 1050H14 Al crush box – Alulight Al foam filler<br />
binary system ........................................................................................ 98<br />
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