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

Honeycombs are ultra-light materials with outstanding mechanical properties, which mainly
originate from their unit cell configurations rather than the properties of matrix materials …

Following nature's design principles, biological entities have evolved to be highly efficient
and multifunctional to maximize all the available materials and structures and to survive in …

Based on the gradient hierarchical distribution of vascular bundles of bamboo, a gradient
hierarchical multicellular column (GHMC) evolved from the spatial folding was proposed …

Lightweight lattice metamaterials can effectively enhance the impact resistance of thin-
walled structures. With the aim of further investigating the potential of lattice-filled composite …

This paper takes into consideration the excellent energy absorption ability of hierarchical
honeycombs and auxetic structures and proposes a novel auxetic hierarchical crash box …

Materials that are lightweight yet exhibit superior mechanical properties are of compelling
importance for several technological applications that range from aircrafts to household …

Porous structure is widely used in automobile, aerospace and other industrial fields due to
its lightweight and high energy absorption capacity. In this study, a novel porous structure, ie …

Additive manufacturing (AM) is a disruptive technology that enables one to manufacture
complex structures reducing both time and manufacturing cost. Among the materials …

Self-similar structures with hierarchy become novel configuration by presenting higher
energy absorption efficiency and better crashworthiness performance, however, its …