Cellular Materials and Topology Optimization use a structured distribution of material to
achieve specific mechanical properties. The controlled distribution of material often leads to …

Cuttlefish, a unique group of marine mollusks, produces an internal biomineralized shell,
known as cuttlebone, which is an ultra-lightweight cellular structure (porosity,∼ 93 vol%) …

A significant amount of research has been done in the last few decades to reduce the risk of
injury for occupants and the structures that are subjected to impact loading. Metamaterials …

Mechanical lattice structures have recently attracted the attention from researchers due to
their lightweight and enhanced mechanical properties. Despite the dual-phase lattices have …

Cuttlebone, the endoskeleton of cuttlefish, offers an intriguing biological structural model for
designing low-density cellular ceramics with high stiffness and damage tolerance …

A new composite lattice structure is proposed by combining variable density and multi-
configuration arrangement. The parameter mapping model is established, and three …

In this study, a lightweight sandwich aircraft spoiler (AS) with a high stiffness-to-weight ratio
was designed. Excellent mechanical properties were achieved by the synthetic use of …

To meet the crashworthiness requirement of lightweight structures under different impact
directions, a series of novel bi-directional gradient lattice structures (BD-GLSs) are proposed …

Featured Application This work can be used for lightweight design of drone structures.
Abstract This paper presents a hybrid topology optimization method for multipatch fused …

This work studies the mechanical performances of four lattice materials, ie, face-edge cube
(FEC), edge-vertex cube (EVC), face-vertex cube (FVC) and face-edge-vertex cube (FEVC) …