On the application of additive manufacturing methods for auxetic structures: a review

A Joseph, V Mahesh, D Harursampath - Advances in Manufacturing, 2021 - Springer
Auxetic structures are a special class of structural components that exhibit a negative
Poisson's ratio (NPR) because of their constituent materials, internal microstructure, or …

3D printing functionally graded metamaterial structure: Design, fabrication, reinforcement, optimization

Y Nian, S Wan, M Avcar, R Yue, M Li - International Journal of Mechanical …, 2023 - Elsevier
The current study introduces a novel class of bio-inspired and 3D-printed metastructures
called functionally graded lattice metamaterial beams (FGLBs). These lightweight lattice …

Blast resistance of auxetic and honeycomb sandwich panels: Comparisons and parametric designs

G Imbalzano, S Linforth, TD Ngo, PVS Lee, P Tran - Composite Structures, 2018 - Elsevier
Equivalent sandwich panels composed of auxetic and conventional honeycomb cores and
metal facets are analysed and compared for their resistance performances against impulsive …

Study on blast resistance of a composite sandwich panel with isotropic foam core with negative Poisson's ratio

W Lv, D Li, L Dong - International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 2021 - Elsevier
In this paper, a sandwich panel composed of two metal face sheets and a three-dimensional
(3D) isotropic foam core with negative Poisson's ratio (NPR) was established via FEM. The …

3D printed sandwich beams with bioinspired cores: Mechanical performance and modelling

C Peng, K Fox, M Qian, H Nguyen-Xuan, P Tran - Thin-Walled Structures, 2021 - Elsevier
Triply periodic minimal surface (TPMS) based cellular structures have drawn increasingly
attention due to their mathematically controlled topologies and promising mechanical …

Triply periodic minimal surfaces sandwich structures subjected to shock impact

P Tran, C Peng - Journal of Sandwich Structures & Materials, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Triply periodic minimal surfaces are cellular structures that naturally inspired continuous non-
self-intersecting surfaces similar to bone microstructure with controllable mechanical …

Multi-objective optimization of additive manufactured functionally graded lattice structures under impact

K Kappe, K Hoschke, W Riedel, S Hiermaier - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
A multi-objective optimization procedure to effectively design gradient lattice structures
under dynamic loading is presented. It aims both at maximized energy absorption …

Mechanical behaviour of auxetic cellular structures built from inverted tetrapods at high strain rates

N Novak, K Hokamoto, M Vesenjak, Z Ren - International Journal of Impact …, 2018 - Elsevier
Auxetic cellular structures build from inverted tetrapods were experimentally tested at high
strain rate compression loading for the first time. The strain rates up to 10,000 s− 1 were …

Finite element analysis of the ballistic impact on auxetic sandwich composite human body armor

IA Shah, R Khan, SSR Koloor, M Petrů, S Badshah… - Materials, 2022 - mdpi.com
In this study, the ballistic impact behavior of auxetic sandwich composite human body armor
was analyzed using finite element analysis. The auxetic core of the armor was composed of …

Close-in blast resistance of large-scale auxetic re-entrant honeycomb sandwich panels

D Kalubadanage, A Remennikov… - Journal of Sandwich …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
The protection of critical infrastructure, including government buildings, airports, religious
buildings, military buildings and military vehicles, which are at risk to blast loads, has …