Auxetic mechanical metamaterials and their futuristic developments: A state-of-art review

M Balan, J Mertens, MVAR Bahubalendruni - Materials Today …, 2023 - Elsevier
The continuous advancement of multifunctional materials is reshaping our way of life and
paving the door for innovative things for us to probe the world and ourselves. Multifunctional …

Current trends in additively manufactured (3D printed) energy absorbing structures for crashworthiness application–a review

CW Isaac, F Duddeck - Virtual and Physical Prototyping, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Inspired by the vast amounts of investigations carried out on three-dimensional (3D) printed
structures and their recent accelerated developments, the present review paper …

Compression behavior of 4D printed metamaterials with various Poisson's ratios

P Xu, X Lan, C Zeng, X Zhang, H Zhao, J Leng… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
In this study, three types of cellular metamaterials with negative/zero/positive Poisson's ratio
and vibration isolation effects were devised and fabricated based on 4D printing of shape …

Fabrication and crushing response of graded re-entrant circular auxetic honeycomb

F Jiang, S Yang, Y Zhang, C Qi, S Chen - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
As lightweight energy-absorbing materials, auxetic honeycombs have demonstrated
promising applications in engineering fields. In this study, the graded re-entrant circular …

[HTML][HTML] Perspectives on additive manufacturing for dynamic impact applications

AE Medvedev, T Maconachie, M Leary, M Qian… - Materials & Design, 2022 - Elsevier
Applications involving strain rates in excess of 10 2-10 3 s− 1 are unique in both materials
selection and design approaches and are of particular importance for protection of …

A review of advanced materials, structures and deformation modes for adaptive energy dissipation and structural crashworthiness

J Magliaro, W Altenhof, AT Alpas - Thin-Walled Structures, 2022 - Elsevier
Thin-walled hollow structures capable of large plastic deformations are ubiquitously present
in sacrificial, high-capacity energy absorbers. A significant challenge in the field of structural …

[HTML][HTML] Enhancing compressive performance in 3D printed pyramidal lattice structures with geometrically tailored I-shaped struts

MA Uddin, I Barsoum, S Kumar, A Schiffer - Materials & Design, 2024 - Elsevier
This study examines the compressive response of geometrically tailored pyramidal lattice
structures composed of struts with I-shaped cross-sections. Geometrically tailored pyramidal …

A corrugated gradient mechanical metamaterial: Lightweight, tunable auxeticity and enhanced specific energy absorption

H Zhang, P Chen, G Lin, W Sun - Thin-Walled Structures, 2022 - Elsevier
As an emerging field, mechanical metamaterials have brought new options for energy
absorption. Herein, the corrugated wall mechanical metamaterial with unique deformation …

Mechanical characterisation and crashworthiness performance of additively manufactured polymer-based honeycomb structures under in-plane quasi-static loading

CW Isaac, A Sokołowski, F Duddeck… - Virtual and Physical …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Additive manufacturing technology is suitable for producing energy-absorbing devices with
tunable mechanical properties and improved crashworthiness performance. In this study, the …

Mechanics of re-entrant anti-trichiral honeycombs with nature-inspired gradient distributions

ET Zhang, H Liu, BF Ng - International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 2023 - Elsevier
This study focuses on the nature-inspired gradient-based approach to re-designing re-
entrant anti-trichiral (REAT) honeycombs through extensive experimental quasi-static …