[HTML][HTML] From prototy** to functional parts: A review of mechanical reinforcing procedures for polymeric parts fabricated via material extrusion

H Sadeghian, MR Ayatollahi, MR Khosravani… - Journal of Manufacturing …, 2024 - Elsevier
In recent years, there has been a growing focus among researchers on enhancing the
mechanical performance of Additively Manufactured (AM) polymers. The ultimate goal is to …

Bending performance of 3D re-entrant and hexagonal metamaterials

XG Zhang, W Jiang, Y Zhang, D Han, C Luo… - Thin-Walled …, 2023 - Elsevier
Auxetic structures have theoretically superior bending resistance that was previously
inaccessible. Compared with the planar two-dimensional (2D) auxetic structures, the three …

Mechanical characterisation and crashworthiness performance of additively manufactured polymer-based honeycomb structures under in-plane quasi-static loading

CW Isaac, A Sokołowski, F Duddeck… - Virtual and Physical …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Additive manufacturing technology is suitable for producing energy-absorbing devices with
tunable mechanical properties and improved crashworthiness performance. In this study, the …

Aluminum foam-filled auxetic double tubular structures: design and characteristic study

XH Ni, XG Zhang, D Han, Y Zhang… - Mechanics of …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
In this work, a double tubular structure consisting of auxetic tubular structures and aluminum
foam was proposed. The mechanical properties of the aluminum foam-filled auxetic tubular …

Comparison of the lateral crushing response of thin-walled aluminum-thermoplastic polymer composite cylindrical shells

PK Alagesan, T Dirgantara, A Jusuf… - Mechanics of …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Thin-walled aluminum tubes and Carbon fiber reinforced thermoplastic polymer composite
structures have enormous prospective in sustainable impact energy-absorbing structures …

A novel strategy to design lattice structures with zero Poisson's ratio

BJ Sahariah, MJ Baishya, A Namdeo, P Khanikar - Engineering Structures, 2023 - Elsevier
Cellular metamaterials are man-made structures that have unusual mechanical properties.
Microlattice structures belong to a category of cellular metamaterials formed by periodic …

Quasi-static compressive behavior and energy absorption of novel cellular structures with varying cross-section dimension

T Li, J Sun, J Leng, Y Liu - Composite Structures, 2023 - Elsevier
Cellular structures exhibit attractive mechanical properties like lightweight, high specific
stiffness, and excellent energy absorption. Materials and structures design offers valuable …

Investigation of the equivalent mechanical properties of the bone-inspired composite cellular structure: Analytical, numerical and experimental approaches

F Ghorbani, H Gharehbaghi, A Farrokhabadi… - Composite …, 2023 - Elsevier
This study investigated the development of an analytical model using the energy method
and Castigliano's second theory to evaluate the equivalent mechanical properties for a bone …

Energy absorption assessment of recovered shapes in 3D-printed star hourglass honeycombs: Experimental and numerical approaches

A Farrokhabadi, H Lu, X Yang, A Rauf, R Talemi… - Composite …, 2024 - Elsevier
This study provides an experimental and numerical evaluation of the energy absorption
performance of a 3D-printed star hourglass honeycomb structure with a novel design made …

Introducing a new hybrid surface strut-based lattice structure with enhanced energy absorption capacity

H Gharehbaghi, A Farrokhabadi… - Mechanics of Advanced …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The present study aims to assess a new lattice structure with high energy absorption
capacity. Lattice structures with surface-based unit cell have higher energy absorption than …