Computationally efficient design of directionally compliant metamaterials

Designing mechanical metamaterials is challenging because of the large number of non-periodic constituent elements. Here, the authors develop an approach to design arbitrarily shaped metamaterials that is more computationally efficient by six orders of magnitude compared to other approaches.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Lucas A. Shaw, Frederick Sun, Carlos M. Portela, Rodolfo I. Barranco, Julia R. Greer, Jonathan B. Hopkins
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2019-01-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-08049-1