Design and Fabrication of a Composite Energy Absorber

Subject Areas : composite materials

Hamid Reza Shalian ¹ , Mohammad Hossein Alaee ² , Jafar Eskandari Jam ³ , Mohsen Heydari Beni ⁴ , Majid Eskandari Shahraki ⁵ , Naser Asiaban ⁶

1 - Department of Mechanical Engineering, Malek Ashtar University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
2 - Department of Mechanical Engineering, Composite Engineering Research Institute
3 - Department of Mechanical Engineering, Composite Engineering Research Institute
4 - Department of Mechanical Engineering, Malek Ashtar University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
5 - Department of Aerospace Engineering, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran
6 - Department of Aerospace Engineering, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran

Received: 2020-04-05 Accepted : 2020-08-08 Published : 2020-12-01

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