Lightweight materials and structures have been extensively studied for a wide range of
applications in design and manufacturing of more environment-friendly and more …

Mechanical metamaterials are a class of functional materials with designability and
extraordinary mechanical properties. Due to the manufacturing limitation of traditional …

The design of biomimetic porous scaffolds has been gaining attention in the biomedical
sector lately. Shells, marine sponges, shark teeth, cancellous bone, sea urchin spine, and …

This work aimed to investigate progressive collapse behaviors and mechanisms of the 3D
printed thin-walled composite structures under quasi-static compression and dynamic …

One of the areas that have benefited the most from the advent of additive manufacturing is
the development of customized cellular materials, scaffolds and lattices. Although these …

Lightweight origami structure has received increasing attention in the past years. This paper
presents a new origami-inspired honeycomb sandwich plate, taking inspiration from two …

Additive manufacturing has provided a unique opportunity to fabricate highly complex
structures as well as sandwich structures with various out-of-plane cores. The application of …

In this paper, 3D printing is combined with supercritical CO 2 foaming technology as a novel
strategy for the manufacture of thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) lightweight hierarchical …

In this paper, a sinusoidal corrugated filled tube (SCFT) is proposed by filling aluminum
foam into a sinusoidal corrugated tube, the finite element model is established using the …

In this study, a hybrid hierarchical square honeycomb (HHSH) is proposed, and its effective
in-plane elastic modulus is investigated theoretically and numerically. The HHSH is …