Automobiles must be designed to control characteristics of energy absorption for the protecting of passengers in a car accident. Study on collapse characteristics of structural member is conducted in parallel with other studies on effective energy abs...
Automobiles must be designed to control characteristics of energy absorption for the protecting of passengers in a car accident. Study on collapse characteristics of structural member is conducted in parallel with other studies on effective energy absorption capacity of structural members with diverse cross-sectional shapes and various materials. This study concerns the crashworthiness of the widely used vehicle structural members, thin-walled tubes, which are excellent on the point of the energy absorption capacity. The absorbed energy, mean collapse load and deformation mode were analyzed for side member which absorbs most of the collision energy. The Energy Absorption Capacity of AI thin-walled tubes have been estimated on cases of with-controller and without-controller, respectively based on height, thickness of an controller. The absorbed energy and mean collapse load of thin-walled tubes was increased by 15-20% in using the controller and energy absorbing capability of the specimen was slightly changed by change of the high controller's height.