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MECHANICS OF MATERIALS
Volume 173, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.mechmat.2022.104421
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Auxetic metamaterials; Bio-inspired design; Rotating squares; Chiral honeycombs; Mechanical characterization
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This work investigates the mechanical response of bio-inspired titanium mechanical metamaterials with negative Poisson's ratio evolved from rotating squares unit. The proposed solution consists of a combined auxetic rotating/chiral architecture with enhanced mechanical and topological properties which exhibits a 3% of global elastic strain of the structure and a Poisson's ratio equal to -0.94. The work confirms the great potential of biologically inspired auxetic metamaterials, which can be designed to obtain tailored mechanical properties while improving the elastic strains capabilities of the system.
This work investigates the mechanical response of bio-inspired titanium mechanical metamaterials with negative Poisson's ratio evolved from rotating squares unit. The systems were designed and optimized using finite element analysis, with peculiar focus on the shape profile at the interconnection regions of the rotating units. The proposed solution consists of a combined auxetic rotating/chiral architecture with enhanced mechanical and topological properties which exhibits a 3% of global elastic strain of the structure and a Poisson's ratio equal to -0.94. Numerical results are in good agreement with those obtained from experimental tests on a 3D printed Onyx prototype. We also examined the effect on the structural response of the metamaterial subject to off-axis mechanical conditions revealing the strong correlation to the geometrically-related anti-tetrachiral honeycombs. The work confirms the great potential of biologically inspired auxetic metamaterials, which can be designed to obtain tailored mechanical properties while improving the elastic strains capabilities of the system.
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