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 …

Rational designs of mechanical metamaterials: Formulations, architectures, tessellations and prospects

J Gao, X Cao, M **ao, Z Yang, X Zhou, Y Li… - Materials Science and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Mechanical Metamaterials (MMs) are artificially designed structures with
extraordinary properties that are dependent on micro architectures and spatial tessellations …

Robustly printable freeform thermal metamaterials

W Sha, M **ao, J Zhang, X Ren, Z Zhu, Y Zhang… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Thermal metamaterials have exhibited great potential on manipulating, controlling and
processing the flow of heat, and enabled many promising thermal metadevices, including …

A deep learning approach for inverse design of gradient mechanical metamaterials

Q Zeng, Z Zhao, H Lei, P Wang - International Journal of Mechanical …, 2023 - Elsevier
Mechanical metamaterials with unique micro-architectures possess excellent physical
properties in terms of stiffness, toughness, vibration isolation, and thermal expansion …

Multiscale concurrent topology optimization of hierarchal multi-morphology lattice structures

X Liu, L Gao, M **ao - Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and …, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper proposes a multiscale concurrent topology optimization method for design of
hierarchal multi-morphology lattice structures (HMMLSs), which features in the Kriging …

Topology-optimized thermal metamaterials traversing full-parameter anisotropic space

W Sha, R Hu, M **ao, S Chu, Z Zhu, CW Qiu… - npj Computational …, 2022 - nature.com
It is widely adopted in thermal metamaterials that mixing different materials could
conveniently result in effective thermal conductivities (ETCs) beyond naturally-occurring …

[HTML][HTML] Topology optimisation for design and additive manufacturing of functionally graded lattice structures using derivative-aware machine learning algorithms

C Wu, J Luo, J Zhong, Y Xu, B Wan, W Huang… - Additive …, 2023 - Elsevier
Although additive manufacturing has offered substantially new opportunities and flexibility
for fabricating 3D complex lattice structures, effective design of such sophisticated structures …

Multi Jet Fusion (MJF) of polymeric components: A review of process, properties and opportunities

M Khorasani, E MacDonald, D Downing… - Additive …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Multi Jet Fusion (MJF) is a high-speed Powder Bed Fusion (PBF) process that
stands to revolutionize the production rate of polymeric Additive Manufacturing (AM). In this …

Kriging-assisted design of functionally graded cellular structures with smoothly-varying lattice unit cells

X Liu, L Gao, M **ao, Y Zhang - Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics …, 2022 - Elsevier
Cellular structures in nature have attracted great attention in the field of structural
optimization. This paper proposes a Kriging-assisted topology optimization method for …

Topology-optimized freeform thermal metamaterials for omnidirectionally cloaking sensors

W Sha, M **ao, M Huang, L Gao - Materials Today Physics, 2022 - Elsevier
The cloaked sensor, which is capable of cloaking itself and still receiving an incoming signal
simultaneously, has attracted widespread concern. In the thermal diffusion community, the …