The automotive lightweighting trends, being driven by sustainability, cost, and performance,
that create the enormous demand for lightweight materials and design concepts, are …

Critically engineered stiffness and strength of a scaffold are crucial for managing
maladapted stress concentration and reducing stress shielding. At the same time, suitable …

Functionally graded thickness (FGT) is an innovative concept to create light-weight
structures with better material distribution and promising energy absorption characteristics …

The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in worldwide shortages of nasopharyngeal swabs
required for sample collection. While the shortages are becoming acute due to supply chain …

Thin-walled tubes have been mostly used in passive vehicle safety systems as crash energy
absorber. With the use of additive manufacturing technology, it is possible to produce novel …

Auxetic meta-biomaterials offer unconventional strain behaviour owing to their negative
Poisson's ratio (− υ) leading to deformation modes and mechanical properties different to …

Literature on the mechanical performance of additively manufactured (AM) negative
Poisson's ratio (-υ) structures has been primarily focused on beam-based re-entrant …

Mimicking anatomical structures like bone can aid in the development of energy absorbing
structures that can achieve desirable properties. Accordingly, this study presents the …

Multi-stage nested multi-cell hollow structures inspired by the macroscopic architecture of
wood are characterized for their energy absorption in this study. After investigating …

The objective of this study is to investigate the crashworthiness performances of graded
lattice structure filled tubes (GLSFTs) under multiple impact loadings. Different graded body …