Novel hybrid minimal surface-based lattice materials
2025 (English)In: Materials & design, ISSN 0264-1275, E-ISSN 1873-4197, Vol. 253, article id 113959Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
The sheet-based triply periodic minimal surface (TPMS) architecture exhibits effective properties below the stiffness Hashin-Shtrikman upper bound and the strength Suquet upper bound (SU). However, some plate-based architectures have achieved these upper bounds, but limited by their inability to effectively eliminate stress concentrations and manufacturing difficulty. This study introduces a new class of isotropic sheet/shell-based lattice-based metamaterials by reinforcing the Schwartz Primitive TPMS architecture, due to its inherent high shear properties, with minimal surface-based (Schwartz Diamond and F-Rhombic Dodecahedron) and plate-based (simple cubic) architectures, inspired by their known high compressive properties. The aim is to design cubic symmetrical and isotropic lattice-based metamaterials capable of providing a combined high stiffness, strength, and specific energy absorption (SEA), rare in the literature. Effective mechanical properties are estimated using quasi-static finite element simulations validated by compression testing of 3D printed lattices. Reinforcing the Schwartz Primitive architecture with the simple cubic plate structure resulted in an open-cell isotropic lattice material providing a 47% increase in combined stiffness over the parent structure, effective yield strength reaching the SU bound in uniaxial loading, and high SEA beyond regular sheet-based TPMS architectures. This work has designed mechanically-efficient isotropic metamaterials that harness the advantages of minimal surface-based structures.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Elsevier BV , 2025. Vol. 253, article id 113959
Keywords [en]
Lattice materials, Triply periodic minimal surface, Hybridization, Effective mechanical properties, Energy absorption
National Category
Applied Mechanics
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-365268DOI: 10.1016/j.matdes.2025.113959ISI: 001480742400001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-105003271327OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-365268DiVA, id: diva2:1974499
Note
QC 20250623
2025-06-232025-06-232025-06-23Bibliographically approved