Programmable Design of the Contour Shape of Soft Cylindrical Honeycomb Under Deformation

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Authors

Zhaohang Zhang¹ , Anastasiia O. Krushynska¹

1. University of Groningen

Conference / event

25th International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, August 2021 (Virtual)

Poster summary

Rapid advances in additive manufacturing, computational design and conceptual breakthroughs have made material design a catalyst for unveiling novel material functionalities. Cellular metamaterials offer an ideal platform for the development of novel smart and multi-functional materials, thanks to their high-dimensional design space determined by a variety of geometric parameters and bulk material properties. In this work, we focus on the design of soft cylindrical structures formed by a combination of auxetic and conventional honeycomb unit cells (i.e., star-shaped and octagonal honeycomb unit cells, SOH), and manage to achieve their programmable mechanical response driven by external deformation.

Keywords

Mechanical metamaterials, Programmabledesign, Shape morphing

Research areas

Material Sciences, Mechanical Engineering

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Competing interests

No competing interests were disclosed.

Data availability statement

The datasets generated during and / or analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.

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Copyright © 2022 Zhang et al. This is an open access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.