Scaffolds from biomaterials: advantages and limitations in bone and tissue engineering

FN Alaribe, SL Manoto, SCKM Motaung - Biologia, 2016 - degruyter.com
Nowadays, there has been immense progress in developing materials to support
transplanted cells. Nevertheless, the complexity of tissues is far beyond what is found in the …

A novel auxetic 3D lattice structure for enhancing energy absorption

W Zhang, H Yin, Y Wu, Q Jin, L Wu, G Wen, J Liu… - Composite …, 2023 - Elsevier
The auxetic lattice structures usually have excellent energy absorption characteristics since
their failed part can resist crushing loads continuously. However, their platform stress is …

Study on mechanical properties of a hierarchical octet-truss structure

W Lv, D Li, L Dong - Composite Structures, 2020 - Elsevier
A hierarchical octet-truss lattice material was proposed by replacing the solid strut of the
octet-truss structure with a tubular re-entrant structure. The tubular re-entrant structure was …

Mechanical characterization of a novel gradient thinning triangular honeycomb

J Han, H Chen, X Xu, Z Li, Q Chen, H Gu, Z Gu - Thin-Walled Structures, 2023 - Elsevier
Negative Poisson's ratio (NPR) structures have attracted much attention in last decades due
to its excellent energy absorption ability, and introducing functional gradient into the …

Numerical analysis on mechanical behaviors of hierarchical cellular structures with negative Poisson's ratio

D Li, J Yin, L Dong, RS Lakes - Smart Materials and Structures, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Two-dimensional hierarchical re-entrant honeycomb structures were designed and the
mechanical behaviors of the structures were studied using a finite element method …

Mechanical behaviors of hierarchical cellular structures with negative Poisson's ratio

J Hou, D Li, L Dong - Journal of Materials Science, 2018 - Springer
An investigation of the mechanical behaviors on hierarchical re-entrant honeycomb
structures was undertaken using finite element method. The hierarchical structure with a …

Modelling of the strength–porosity relationship in glass-ceramic foam scaffolds for bone repair

Q Chen, F Baino, S Spriano, NM Pugno… - Journal of the European …, 2014 - Elsevier
Foam-like glass-ceramic scaffolds based on three different glass compositions (45S5
Bioglass and two other experimental formulations, CEL2 and SCNA) were produced by …

In-plane stiffness of the anisotropic multifunctional hierarchical honeycombs

Y Sun, B Wang, N Pugno, B Wang, Q Ding - Composite Structures, 2015 - Elsevier
The anisotropic hexagonal honeycomb is one of the common honeycombs. To increase its
in-plane stiffness greatly, in this paper the anisotropic multifunctional hierarchical …

Cubically symmetric mechanical metamaterials projected from 4th-dimensional geometries reveal high specific properties in shear

G Cerniauskas, P Alam - ACS Applied Engineering Materials, 2023 - ACS Publications
In this paper, we present an emerging class of cubically symmetric mechanical
metamaterials based on 3-space geometrical shadows of 4th-dimensional geometries (4 …

Wave propagation properties of rotationally symmetric lattices with curved beams

K Zhang, C Zhao, P Zhao, J Luo, Z Deng - The Journal of the …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
In this study, we design a type of rotationally symmetric lattice with curved beams and
investigate the wave propagation properties of the structure. The analytical model of the …