TPMS-based strut-shell interpenetrating lattice metamaterial with wide-range customizable mechanical properties and superior energy absorption

Luo, Zhichao, Tang, Qian, Song, Jun, Zhang, Yuanhang, Feng, Qixiang, Ma, Shuai, Setchi, Rossitza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7207-6544 and Zhao, Miao 2024. TPMS-based strut-shell interpenetrating lattice metamaterial with wide-range customizable mechanical properties and superior energy absorption. Composite Structures 349-35 , 118555. 10.1016/j.compstruct.2024.118555 Item availability restricted.

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Abstract

Mechanical metamaterials (MMs) are artificially designed structures with superior properties that originate from unit cells. Compared with the widely studied single-morphology MMs, multi-morphology interpenetrating MMs offer, by the virtue of their fused lattice characteristics, the potential for customizable mechanical properties and new application fields. Inspired by the fact that the isosurface of triply periodic minimal surfaces (TPMS) can divide a lattice into two independent regions, this paper proposes a novel TPMS-based strut-shell interpenetrating (TSSI) lattice metamaterial. This study demonstrates that the TSSI lattice has a larger specific surface area than traditional TPMS lattices. Compared with the volume fraction, the fusion proportion parameter is not only more conducive to effectively adjusting the mechanical properties in a wide range and controlling the anisotropy of the lattice metamaterials to achieve elastic isotropy but significantly changes the dominant mechanism of deformation under uniaxial and shear loads. Moreover, the TSSI lattice metamaterial can avoid sharp stress drops due to the mutual support and wrapping of the internal interpenetrating lattices after failure, resulting in a more stable energy absorption efficiency and a maximum increase in energy absorption of 74%. This work provides new opportunities to design lightweight components with a wide range of customizable mechanical properties and superior energy absorption.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Engineering
Publisher:	Elsevier
ISSN:	0263-8223
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	19 September 2024
Date of Acceptance:	31 August 2024
Last Modified:	13 Nov 2024 14:30
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/172274

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