TY - JOUR AU - Lafta, Omar Abdulhasan AU - Mohammed Fareed, Minah AU - Said, Md Radzai PY - 2020/03/23 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Experimental and simulation study of mild steel response to lateral quasi-static compression JF - Journal of Mechanical Engineering and Sciences JA - J. Mech. Eng. Sci. VL - 14 IS - 1 SE - Article DO - 10.15282/jmes.14.1.2020.23.0508 UR - https://journal.ump.edu.my/jmes/article/view/313 SP - 6488 - 6496 AB - <p>Collision of structure of a vehicle is not limited to the axial direction but it can occur laterally. The purpose of this paper is to present a study of the energy absorption behavior of different length of the circular mild steel tube under lateral crushing. A ring/tube (length of 10 mm, 35 mm, and 60 mm), 60 mm diameter and 1.5 mm thickness is compressed quasi-statically. Maximum loading setup to Instron machine was 50 kN. The speed of compression is 5mm/min. Finite Element Analysis (FEA) it used to validate the experimental work to ensure of getting accurate results.&nbsp; Numerical results of energy absorption and collapse load showed respectively 96.52% and 94.36% agreement with experimental results. The theoretical results showed 14.37% deviation with experimental and 15.5% with numerical results. The specimen with 60 mm length leads to better energy absorption than the other specimens. The results&nbsp;obtained numerically and experimentally in addition to theoretically showed the energy absorbed and collapse load varies with the length of the tube.</p> ER -