Abstract Four-dimensional (4D) printing is an advanced manufacturing technology that has
rapidly emerged as a transformative tool with the capacity to reshape various research …

Hard-magnetic soft materials (hMSMs) are smart composites that consist of a mechanically
soft polymer matrix impregnated with mechanically hard magnetic filler particles. This dual …

Swept volumes are widely existed in various significant engineering applications. However,
an effective design method for the lightweight swept volume with porous infills is lacking …

The properties of materials and structures typically remain fixed after being designed and
manufactured. There is a growing interest in systems with the capability of altering their …

Thermal cloaks are devices designed to shield an object against thermal detection, which
have attracted growing interest in research. This paper proposes to design thermal cloaks …

Rib-reinforced thin-walled structures are commonly used in various important industrial
fields. In this paper, an explicit layout optimization method is developed to design rib …

Magneto-active structures can undergo rapid and reversible deformations under untethered
magnetic fields. The capability to design such structures to achieve programmable shape …

The infill design for free-form surfaces is challenging due to the mismatch of both the
geometric feature and physical response between the curved surface on the macroscale …

In this paper, the authors propose a dimension reduction level set method (DR-LSM) for
shape and topology optimization of heat conduction problems on general free-form surfaces …

Hard-magnetic soft materials (HMSMs) are a class of smart soft magnetoactive polymers
fabricated by embedding high-coercivity hard-magnetic particles such as NdFeB, CoFe2O4 …