Inspired by the hierarchical macro and microstructures widely found in nature, this study
proposes a novel hierarchical honeycomb design methodology. The aim is to overcome the …

Engineered honeycomb lattice materials with high specific strength and stiffness along with
the advantage of programmable direction-dependent mechanical tailorability are being …

A generic analytical framework is proposed to obtain the dynamic elastic moduli of lattice
materials under steady-state vibration conditions. The dynamic deformation behaviour of the …

Inspired by the advantages of the hexagon lattices and auxetic metamaterials, the typical
two-dimensional (2D) hexagon-type elastic metamaterials (EMs), that is, the concave, the …

This paper proposes two significant developments of the Wittrick–Williams (W–W) algorithm
for an exact wave propagation analysis of lattice structures based on analytical dynamic …

Analytical investigations to characterize the effective mechanical properties of lattice
materials allow an in-depth exploration of the parameter space efficiently following an …

As a consequence of intense investigation on possible topologies of periodic lattices, the
limit of specific elastic moduli that can be achieved solely through unit cell-level geometries …

Effective elastic moduli of lattice-based materials are one of the most crucial parameters for
the adoption of such artificial microstructures in advanced mechanical and structural …

In-plane wave propagation in hexagonal and re-entrant lattices is a widely investigated
subject in the literature. Such systems can exhibit many different but limited band structure …

Abstract Characterization of the effective elastic properties of lattice-type materials is
essential for adopting such artificial microstructures in various multi-functional mechanical …