Lightweight metallic cellular materials: a systematic review on mechanical characteristics and engineering applications

E Wang, R Yao, Q Li, X Hu, G Sun - International Journal of Mechanical …, 2024 - Elsevier
Lightweight metallic cellular materials (MCMs) have been seen in numerous engineering
applications to date, primarily due to their excellent mechanical characteristics such as low …

[HTML][HTML] Advanced honeycomb designs for improving mechanical properties: A review

C Qi, F Jiang, S Yang - Composites Part B: Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
Honeycombs are ultra-light materials with outstanding mechanical properties, which mainly
originate from their unit cell configurations rather than the properties of matrix materials …

Effective elastic properties of irregular auxetic structures

Q Gao, Z Ding, WH Liao - Composite Structures, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper presents an analytical framework with a bottom-up multi-step approach to predict
the in-plane mechanical properties including the effective Young's modulus and Poisson's …

Influence of cell shape on mechanical properties of Ti–6Al–4V meshes fabricated by electron beam melting method

SJ Li, QS Xu, Z Wang, WT Hou, YL Hao, R Yang… - Acta biomaterialia, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract Ti–6Al–4V reticulated meshes with different elements (cubic, G7 and rhombic
dodecahedron) in Materialise software were fabricated by additive manufacturing using the …

Metamaterials with negative Poisson's ratio and non-positive thermal expansion

L Ai, XL Gao - Composite Structures, 2017 - Elsevier
Four metallic metamaterials with tailorable mechanical properties are designed using bi-
material star-shaped re-entrant planar lattice structures, which do not involve pins, adhesive …

Novel 2D star-shaped honeycombs with enhanced effective Young's modulus and negative Poisson's ratio

N Xu, HT Liu, MR An, L Wang - Extreme Mechanics Letters, 2021 - Elsevier
In the present paper, three kinds of novel two-dimensional enhanced star-shaped
honeycombs (2D-ESSH) are proposed, which are consisted of the two-dimensional star …

Three-dimensional metamaterials with a negative Poisson's ratio and a non-positive coefficient of thermal expansion

L Ai, XL Gao - International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 2018 - Elsevier
Four types of three-dimensional (3-D) metallic metamaterials with tailorable thermo-
mechanical properties are designed. For the first three types, the structure-property relations …

[HTML][HTML] Effects of cell size and cell wall thickness variations on the stiffness of closed-cell foams

Y Chen, R Das, M Battley - International Journal of Solids and Structures, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper concerns with the micromechanical modelling of closed-cell polymeric foams
(M130) using Laguerre tessellation models incorporated with realistic foam cell size and cell …

Mechanical properties of open-cell rhombic dodecahedron cellular structures

S Babaee, BH Jahromi, A Ajdari, H Nayeb-Hashemi… - Acta Materialia, 2012 - Elsevier
A series of analytical relationships is presented to predict the mechanical properties and
response of open three-dimensional Voronoi tessellation of face-centered cubic structures …

An analytical model for star-shaped re-entrant lattice structures with the orthotropic symmetry and negative Poisson's ratios

L Ai, XL Gao - International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 2018 - Elsevier
A new analytical model is developed for three types of 2-D periodic star-shaped re-entrant
lattice structures that possess the orthotropic symmetry and exhibit negative Poisson's ratios …