With the development of three-dimensional printing technologies, so-called cellular materials have achieved increasingattention due to outstanding properties. Unlike pure solid structures, properties of cellular mater...With the development of three-dimensional printing technologies, so-called cellular materials have achieved increasingattention due to outstanding properties. Unlike pure solid structures, properties of cellular materials are influenced by bothutilized material and cell microtopology. The present paper proposes a novel type of re-entrant square cellular material.To explore the relationship between microtopology and macrodynamic responses systematically, an explicit dynamic finiteelement simulation method is used. This work starts by constructing theoretical models of relative density employing atwo-dimensional unit cell. Then, the effects of geometric features and configurations on dynamic properties are explored,and simulations indicate that variations of geometric parameters strongly affect properties and that the staggered re-entrantsquares are more stable than the regular re-entrant squares. Subsequently, the effects of the impact velocity on dynamiccrushing behaviors are elaborated. On this basis, the relationship of unit mass energy absorption and geometric features isobtained by employing the response surface method. Furthermore, with targets of maximum unit mass energy absorption andminimum relative density, the optimal structural parameters are achieved by using non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm.The study provides a detailed introduction to dynamic behaviors of cellular materials and guidance to design new structureswith superior characteristics of energy absorption.展开更多
基金This work was supported by the China Scholar-ship Council(Grant No.201606170199)the NationalKey Research and Development Program of China(2016YFB0101601).
文摘With the development of three-dimensional printing technologies, so-called cellular materials have achieved increasingattention due to outstanding properties. Unlike pure solid structures, properties of cellular materials are influenced by bothutilized material and cell microtopology. The present paper proposes a novel type of re-entrant square cellular material.To explore the relationship between microtopology and macrodynamic responses systematically, an explicit dynamic finiteelement simulation method is used. This work starts by constructing theoretical models of relative density employing atwo-dimensional unit cell. Then, the effects of geometric features and configurations on dynamic properties are explored,and simulations indicate that variations of geometric parameters strongly affect properties and that the staggered re-entrantsquares are more stable than the regular re-entrant squares. Subsequently, the effects of the impact velocity on dynamiccrushing behaviors are elaborated. On this basis, the relationship of unit mass energy absorption and geometric features isobtained by employing the response surface method. Furthermore, with targets of maximum unit mass energy absorption andminimum relative density, the optimal structural parameters are achieved by using non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm.The study provides a detailed introduction to dynamic behaviors of cellular materials and guidance to design new structureswith superior characteristics of energy absorption.
