Porous/multi-cell structures are widely used in practical engineering due to their excellent
energy absorption capacity and lightweight. In recent decades, as an important member of …

Innovative honeycomb-based structures have been paid substantial attention in recent years
due to their superb mechanical performances and specific functions. The presented study …

Unlike stochastic foams, 3D printed lattice structures can be created with a tailored
microstructure to achieve the desired global mechanical properties. In this study, quasi-static …

In order to obtain honeycomb structure with higher energy absorption capacity, a novel
honeycomb is proposed by adding double arrowhead honeycomb (DAH) cells into star …

Auxetic materials exhibit interesting mechanical properties. In this work, a novel auxetic unit
cell was proposed with an aim to improve the strength and energy absorption of the auxetic …

Honeycomb structures exhibit outstanding mechanical properties with specific unit cell
configurations. We introduce a novel honeycomb structure that can enhance the …

Double arrowed honeycomb (DAH) is a typical auxetic material with negative Poisson's ratio
(NPR) and excellent mechanical properties, showing a wide application prospect in …

In this paper, novel bionic sandwich cores are proposed based on the cross section of
seagull feather shaft to provide an effective protective mechanism against impact. The …

While the separate design of functionally graded and fractal self-similarity structures had
shown to be effective in improving the energy absorption capacities of honeycombs, their …

In this paper, a novel three dimensional (3D) AuxHex lattice structure consisting of auxetic re-
entrant and hexagonal components is proposed. Theoretical models of elastic constants and …