Lightweight metallic cellular materials (MCMs) have been seen in numerous engineering
applications to date, primarily due to their excellent mechanical characteristics such as low …

Dynamic compressive behaviour of cellular materials is crucial to their applications in
energy absorption, ballistic mitigation and blast/impact protection. The recent research …

Ceramics possess desirable stiffness, compressive strength, and thermal properties
compared to alternative material classes. Despite this, the adoption of ceramics into …

An experimental study of the stress–strain behaviour of titanium alloy (Ti6Al4V) lattice
structures across a range of loading rates has been reported in a previous paper [1]. The …

Open-cell aluminium (Al) foam is widely used in the field of hypervelocity impact (HVI)
energy absorption, especially in space science, but the mechanical properties have been …

The deformation characteristics and mechanical behavior of closed-cell polylactide (PLA)
foams under quasi-static uniaxial compression are investigated. The PLA foam specimens …

Introducing graded cellular materials into energy absorber may improve the crashworthiness
of protective structures. In order to meet the crashworthiness requirement that the impact …

The square honeycomb core is compressed quasi-statically and dynamically in order to
investigate the mechanical properties of it. The plastic collapse stress under static …

As an effective strategy to enhance the energy absorption and impact resistance capacities
of foam materials, density-gradient design has been widely proposed as a viable solution …

Featured Application Results of this work can be used to compare VN foams to other helmet
liner materials and could help in the design of new protective devices. Abstract Vinyl nitrile …