Mechanical metamaterials enable the creation of structural materials with unprecedented
mechanical properties. However, thus far, research on mechanical metamaterials has …

Gradient structures found in biological materials have served as a source of inspiration for
scientists seeking to enhance the performance of metals and alloys over the past decades …

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has advanced material research that were previously intractable,
for example, the machine learning (ML) has been able to predict some unprecedented …

A novel hierarchical re-entrant honeycomb metamaterial is proposed by integrating the re-
entrant honeycomb (RH) with square unit cell and named as square re-entrant honeycomb …

Abstract Mechanical Metamaterials (MMs) are artificially designed structures with
extraordinary properties that are dependent on micro architectures and spatial tessellations …

Compared with the forward design method through the control of geometric parameters and
material types, the inverse design method based on the target stress‐strain curve is helpful …

Aluminum foam composite structures, represented by sandwich plates and filled tubes,
process remarkable light-weight and energy absorption characteristics, which have …

The paper proposes a novel polygonal negative stiffness (NS) metamaterial composed of
folded beams and stiffening walls, which exhibits excellent performance in attenuating …

This study introduces an artificial neural network approach for the inverse design of a novel
semi-auxetic mechanical metamaterial to achieve a specified stress-strain curve and/or …

This paper investigates the feasibility of data-driven methods in automating the engineering
design process, specifically studying inverse design of cellular mechanical metamaterials …