Design and Analysis of Bicycle Helmet Made of PETg and ABS with Honeycomb Structure Against External Impacts using Abaqus Software

Subject Areas : Mechanical Engineering

sajjad pakzad ¹ , ahad shah hoseini ² , Maryam Dehghani ³ , amir bahador khalkhali ⁴

1 - Faculty of Design, Tabriz Islamic Art University, Iran
2 - Faculty of Design, Tabriz Islamic Art University, Iran
3 - M.Sc. Student, Faculty of Design, Tabriz Islamic Art University, Iran
4 - M.Sc. Student, Faculty of Design, Tabriz Islamic Art University, Iran

Received: 2020-04-03 Accepted : 2020-09-02 Published : 2021-03-01

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