[HTML][HTML] Flexibility, toughness, and load bearing of 3D-printed chiral kerf composite structures

A Darnal, K Mantri, W Betts, N Kalantar, J Kim… - Composites Part B …, 2024 - Elsevier
Chiral kerf structures are formed by arranging chiral and coiled unit cells which allows for
multi-dimensional and multi-scale shape configurations under mechanical loadings. In this …

Fractal design of 3D-printing mechanical metamaterial undergoing tailorable zero Poisson's ratio

Y Liu, H Lu, D Lau - Smart Materials and Structures, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
With the development of mechanical metamaterials, structures with large and nonlinear
deformations have attracted great research passions for their increasingly applications …

Gecko-inspired fractal buffer for passenger elevator

YT Zuo, FF Luo, SL Zeng - Facta Universitatis, Series …, 2024 - casopisi.junis.ni.ac.rs
Elevator accidents are common occurrences and can cause serious injuries and property
damages. If an elevator falls from a tall building and hits the ground at high speed …

Greek Key Inspired Fractal Metamaterials with Superior Stretchability for Tunable Wave Propagation

Z Zhang, H Jiang, BA Bednarcyk… - Advanced Materials …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Stretchable materials that can sustain a large deformation are in high demand, because they
find broad applications ranging from stretchable energy storage devices to tunable noise …

Design, analysis and optimization of the uniaxial properties of a new auxetic anti-chiral parallelogram metamaterial

W Zhang, Y Wang, Z Li, X Wang, F Scarpa - Thin-Walled Structures, 2024 - Elsevier
An innovative two dimensional auxetic metamaterial was designed by mirroring a
parallelogram with two parallel ligaments along the horizontal and vertical directions. The …

Proposing novel body-centered cubic lattice core sandwich panels as satellite structure

F Kamareh, B Pang, W Cao, R Chi, D Hu - Advances in Space Research, 2024 - Elsevier
In the present paper, a comparative study on the load-bearing as well as shielding
performance against hypervelocity impact of space debris of sandwich panels with body …

Semi-self-similar fractal cellular structures with broadband sound absorption

H Yan, S Xie, F Zhang, K Jing, L He - Applied Acoustics, 2024 - Elsevier
Honeycomb core materials, recognized for their excellent sound absorption and load-
bearing capabilities, are widely employed in engineering applications. The back cavity …

Frequency-band programmable piezoelectric energy harvesters with variable substrate material, tip mass and fractal architectures: Experimental and numerical …

S Mondal, T Mukhopadhyay, F Scarpa… - … Based Design of …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
To automate the approach of assessing the health and efficacy of large structural systems
globally through structural health monitoring systems, a vast network of sensors that must be …

The influence of inelastic materials on freeform kerf structures

A Darnal, K Mantri, Z Shahid, N Kalantar… - Thin-Walled Structures, 2023 - Elsevier
Kerfing or relief cutting is a fabrication approach to create moldable surfaces out of wood
and metal panels. The kerf panels with pre-defined microstructural topology enable the …

[HTML][HTML] Dynamic Characteristics of Composite Sandwich Panel with Triangular Chiral (Tri-Chi) Honeycomb under Random Vibration

H Yuan, Y Zhong, Y Tang, R Liu - Materials, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
A full triangular chiral (Tri-Chi) honeycomb, combining a honeycomb structure with triangular
chiral configuration, notably impacts the Poisson's ratio (PR) and stiffness. To assess the …