An investigation on the energy absorption characteristics of a multi-cell hexagonal tube under axial crushing loads

• Li Yang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Li Yang, Mingkai Yue

  Roles Conceptualization, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Equipment Engineering, Shenyang Ligong University, Shenyang, Liaoning, China

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• Mingkai Yue ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Li Yang, Mingkai Yue

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: yangliliyang321@163.com

  Affiliation School of Equipment Engineering, Shenyang Ligong University, Shenyang, Liaoning, China

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6448-2449

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• Zhen Li ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation School of Equipment Engineering, Shenyang Ligong University, Shenyang, Liaoning, China

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• Tong Shen ,

  Roles Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation School of Equipment Engineering, Shenyang Ligong University, Shenyang, Liaoning, China

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• on behalf of The Chongqing postdoctoral research project

  ¶Membership of the Chongqing postdoctoral research project is provided in the Acknowledgments.

  Affiliation School of Equipment Engineering, Shenyang Ligong University, Shenyang, Liaoning, China

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