Journal
THIN-WALLED STRUCTURES
Volume 176, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.tws.2022.109355
Keywords
Auxetic behavior; Mechanical metamaterials; Gradient design; Specific energy absorption; Structural response
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Funding
- National Key Research and Development Program of China [2020YFA 0711800]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [11802027]
- State Key Laboratory of Explosion Science and Technology [YPJH20-6, QNKT20-01, JCRC18-01]
- BIT-BRFFR Joint Research Program, China [BITBLR2020018]
- Beijing Institute of Technology Research Fund
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Mechanical metamaterials offer new options for energy absorption, and the design of corrugated wall mechanical metamaterials with adjustable lateral wall thickness can significantly alter the mechanical properties of the structure. Continuous and symmetric gradient design methods can improve the specific energy absorption of the structure.
As an emerging field, mechanical metamaterials have brought new options for energy absorption. Herein, the corrugated wall mechanical metamaterial with unique deformation mechanism was designed and systematically studied. Due to the difference in the interaction mechanism between corrugated walls, the normal auxetic structures with different lateral wall thickness (t(l)) have two deformation modes: contact mode and non-contact mode. It has been found that the mechanical properties of the structure are widely tunable by simply increasing the t(l) of the structure: for normal samples, continuous gradient samples and symmetric gradient samples, the compression modulus can be increased by 35.5%, 27.8% and 40%, respectively. Additionally, the specific energy absorption of the proposed structure is significantly improved by employing continuous gradient and symmetric gradient design methods. The specific energy absorption of symmetric gradient samples increased by 30.6% (t(l) = 0.80 mm), 81.5% (t(l) = 1.15 mm) and 63.3% (t(l) = 1.50 mm) compared with the normal samples with the same t(l). In addition, by further optimizing the normalized amplitude (h/L) of the symmetric gradient structure, the SEA can be further improved. This study can provide a reference for the relevant research of tunable energy-absorbing device.
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