Computationally efficient design of directionally compliant metamaterials

Lucas A. Shaw; Frederick Sun; Carlos M. Portela; Rodolfo I. Barranco; Julia R. Greer; Jonathan B. Hopkins

doi:10.1038/s41467-018-08049-1

Nature Communications (Jan 2019)

Computationally efficient design of directionally compliant metamaterials

Lucas A. Shaw,
Frederick Sun,
Carlos M. Portela,
Rodolfo I. Barranco,
Julia R. Greer,
Jonathan B. Hopkins

Affiliations

Lucas A. Shaw: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles
Frederick Sun: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles
Carlos M. Portela: Division of Engineering and Applied Science, California Institute of Technology
Rodolfo I. Barranco: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles
Julia R. Greer: Division of Engineering and Applied Science, California Institute of Technology
Jonathan B. Hopkins: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-08049-1
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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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.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

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