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Quasi-static and dynamic testing of splitting, expansion and expansion-splitting hybrid tubes under oblique loading
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Moreno, C., Beaumont, Richard Adrian, Hughes, Darren J., Williams, T. and Dashwood, R. J. (2017) Quasi-static and dynamic testing of splitting, expansion and expansion-splitting hybrid tubes under oblique loading. International Journal of Impact Engineering, 100 . pp. 117-130. doi:10.1016/j.ijimpeng.2016.11.001 ISSN 0734743X.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijimpeng.2016.11.001
Abstract
Railway vehicles energy absorbers are required to comply with the BS EN 15227. These standards require the energy absorbers to dissipate the collision energy while preventing overriding, which implies resisting any vertical loads during the collision. Unlike crumple columns, ‘flat topped’ energy absorbers exhibit an increased axial mean load under oblique loading conditions, instead of decreasing their energy absorption capacity when subjected to a critical transverse loading.
A newly proposed methodology of assessing the oblique loading performance of ‘flat topped’ is presented here to compare the performance of the splitting, expansion and the novel expansion-splitting tubes (all ‘flat topped’ energy absorbers). The methodology comprises the comparison of the measured axial mean load between purely axial tests and oblique loading tests, to assess the sensitivity of the tubes to the oblique loading.
Dimensionally scaled tubes, compressed by expansion, splitting and expansion splitting dies, were quasi-statically and dynamically tested against 5° and 10° inclined plates to reproduce the oblique loading conditions.
The quasi-static results showed that the expansion-splitting tubes, unlike splitting and expansion, were largely insensitive to the application of a transverse loading. Therefore, the expansion-splitting tubes could be regarded as more efficient than expansion or splitting tubes under quasi-static oblique loading.
The dynamic results showed that the splitting tubes became as insensitive as the expansion-splitting tubes to the application of a transverse loading
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Engineering > WMG (Formerly the Warwick Manufacturing Group) | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | International Journal of Impact Engineering | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Elsevier | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 0734743X | ||||||||
| Official Date: | February 2017 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 100 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 117-130 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.ijimpeng.2016.11.001 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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