Additive manufacturing of metallic lattice structures: Unconstrained design, accurate fabrication, fascinated performances, and challenges

LY Chen, SX Liang, Y Liu, LC Zhang - Materials Science and Engineering …, 2021 - Elsevier
Lattice structures, which are also known as architected cellular structures, have been
applied in various industrial sectors, owing to their fascinated performances, such as low …

Mechanical metamaterials and beyond

P Jiao, J Mueller, JR Raney, X Zheng… - Nature communications, 2023 - nature.com
Mechanical metamaterials enable the creation of structural materials with unprecedented
mechanical properties. However, thus far, research on mechanical metamaterials has …

Additively manufactured materials and structures: A state-of-the-art review on their mechanical characteristics and energy absorption

Y Wu, J Fang, C Wu, C Li, G Sun, Q Li - International Journal of Mechanical …, 2023 - Elsevier
Lightweight materials and structures have been extensively studied for a wide range of
applications in design and manufacturing of more environment-friendly and more …

[HTML][HTML] SLM lattice structures: Properties, performance, applications and challenges

T Maconachie, M Leary, B Lozanovski, X Zhang… - Materials & Design, 2019 - Elsevier
Additive manufacturing (AM), particularly Selective Laser Melting (SLM) has enabled
development of lattice structures with unique properties. Through control of various …

Review on lattice structures for energy absorption properties

H Yin, W Zhang, L Zhu, F Meng, J Liu, G Wen - Composite Structures, 2023 - Elsevier
Porous/multi-cell structures are widely used in practical engineering due to their excellent
energy absorption capacity and lightweight. In recent decades, as an important member of …

Lightweight metallic cellular materials: a systematic review on mechanical characteristics and engineering applications

E Wang, R Yao, Q Li, X Hu, G Sun - International Journal of Mechanical …, 2024 - Elsevier
Lightweight metallic cellular materials (MCMs) have been seen in numerous engineering
applications to date, primarily due to their excellent mechanical characteristics such as low …

[HTML][HTML] Review on design and structural optimisation in additive manufacturing: Towards next-generation lightweight structures

J Plocher, A Panesar - Materials & Design, 2019 - Elsevier
As the application of additive manufacturing (AM) reaches an unprecedented scale in both
academia and industry, a reflection upon the state-of-the-art developments in the design for …

Multifunctional mechanical metamaterials based on triply periodic minimal surface lattices

O Al-Ketan, RK Abu Al-Rub - Advanced Engineering Materials, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
In nature, cellular materials exhibit enhanced multifunctionalities driven mainly by their
sophisticated topologies and length scales. These natural systems have inspired the …

Programmable gear-based mechanical metamaterials

X Fang, J Wen, L Cheng, D Yu, H Zhang, P Gumbsch - Nature Materials, 2022 - nature.com
Elastic properties of classical bulk materials can hardly be changed or adjusted in operando,
while such tunable elasticity is highly desired for robots and smart machinery. Although …

MSLattice: A free software for generating uniform and graded lattices based on triply periodic minimal surfaces

O Al‐Ketan, RK Abu Al‐Rub - Material Design & Processing …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Nature‐inspired materials based on triply periodic minimal surfaces (TPMS) are very
attractive in many engineering disciplines because of their topology‐driven properties …