Lightweight materials and structures have been extensively studied for a wide range of
applications in design and manufacturing of more environment-friendly and more …

It is widely known that the demand for lightweight structures with excellent energy absorption
capacity is paramount in numerous engineering applications. Many publications have …

The interest in using natural fiber reinforced composites is now at its highest. Numerous
studies have been conducted due to their positive benefits related to environmental issues …

Abstract Three-dimensional (3D) printing is a potential rapid prototy** process that may
replace traditional manufacturing processes to fabricate lightweight cellular structures with …

Sandwich structures have been extensively employed as lightweight composite components
in aerospace and shipbuilding engineering for their high capacity of stiffness, strength and …

Nature has provided us with extraordinary resources to tackle design challenges facing in
modern society nowadays. The multistate structures inspired by animal shell have proven …

An innovative sandwich structure with auxetic re-entrant cell honeycomb cores was
proposed in this paper, and the dynamic responses and blast resistance of the honeycomb …

To predict the damage behaviours of composite sandwich structures with a honeycomb core
subjected to low-velocity perforation impact, a numerical model was developed addressing …

Thin-walled hollow structures capable of large plastic deformations are ubiquitously present
in sacrificial, high-capacity energy absorbers. A significant challenge in the field of structural …

The concept of mimicking natural materials to design novel lightweight structures with high
capacity of energy absorption is of great interest at present. Enormous natural structures …