Lightweight metallic cellular materials (MCMs) have been seen in numerous engineering
applications to date, primarily due to their excellent mechanical characteristics such as low …

Lightweight materials and structures have attracted tremendous interests for their compelling
advantages in a range of engineering problems that have placed heightened requirements …

This study aimed to investigate low-velocity impact responses and crashworthiness of
different aluminum foam-core sandwich structures. Several drop-weight dynamic impact …

This work aimed to investigate progressive collapse behaviors and mechanisms of the 3D
printed thin-walled composite structures under quasi-static compression and dynamic …

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

In this paper, multi-cell filled thin-walled structures were proposed and prepared using fused
deposition modeling by carbon-fiber-reinforced polyamide. All structures had the same …

Metal/composite hybrid structures, which combine low-density composites with low-cost
metallic materials, exhibit considerable potential to provide cost-effective energy-absorbing …

Auxetic materials or structures, especially 3D cellular lattice architectures with negative
Poisson's ratio (NPR) have attracted great attention due to their unprecedented mechanical …