Advances in mechanics of hierarchical composite materials

A Stair‐Building Strategy for Tailoring Mechanical Behavior of Re‐Customizable Metamaterials

(2021) Xin Lin et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

In-plane and out-of-plane stiffness of 2D random fiber networks: Micromechanics and non-classical stiffness relation

(2020) Fei Pan et al.   Extreme Mechanics Letters

Influencing factors of droplet aggregation on hierarchical wedge-shaped functional surfaces

(2020) Shuai Wang et al.   COMPUTATIONAL MATERIALS SCIENCE

Engineering lattice metamaterials for extreme property, programmability, and multifunctionality

(2020) Zian Jia et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Nonlinear dynamic response of sandwich plates with functionally graded auxetic 3D lattice core

(2020) Chong Li et al.   NONLINEAR DYNAMICS

A hierarchical multiscale model for the elastic-plastic damage behavior of 3D braided composites at high temperature

(2020) Chunwang He et al.   COMPOSITES SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Effect of reinforcement architecture on the macroscopic mechanical properties of fiberous polymer composites: A review

(2020) Furkan Ahmad et al.   POLYMER COMPOSITES

Efficient multiscale analysis method for the compressive progressive damage of 3D braided composites based on FFT

(2020) Bing Wang et al.   ACTA MECHANICA

In-plane impact resistance enhancement with a graded cell-wall angle design for auxetic metamaterials

(2020) Xin Wu et al.   COMPOSITE STRUCTURES

How Does Nature Evade the “Larger is Weaker” Fate of Ultralong Silk β-Sheet Nanocrystallites

(2020) Dechang Li et al.   NANO LETTERS

Mechanical and Physical Properties of Short Carbon Fiber and Nanofiller-Reinforced Polypropylene Hybrid Nanocomposites

(2020) Harri Junaedi et al.   Polymers

3D Pixel Mechanical Metamaterials

(2019) Fei Pan et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Strength analysis of bio-inspired composites reinforced by regularly and randomly staggered platelets

(2019) Weichao Yang et al.   COMPOSITE STRUCTURES

Static and fatigue interlaminar shear reinforcement in aligned carbon nanotube-reinforced hierarchical advanced composites

(2019) Xinchen Ni et al.   COMPOSITES PART A-APPLIED SCIENCE AND MANUFACTURING

A Floquet-Based Bar-Spring Model for the Dynamic Modulus of Bioinspired Composites with Arbitrary Staggered Architectures

(2019) Wen Xie et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED MECHANICS-TRANSACTIONS OF THE ASME

Directional Transport Behavior of Droplets on Wedge-Shaped Functional Surfaces

(2019) Ming Liu et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Effects of architecture level on mechanical properties of hierarchical lattice materials

(2019) Sha Yin et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MECHANICAL SCIENCES

Instability-Triggered Triply Negative Mechanical Metamaterial

(2019) Zian Jia et al.   Physical Review Applied

Grafting carbon nanotubes densely on carbon fibers by poly(propylene imine) for interfacial enhancement of carbon fiber composites

(2019) Qiang Chen et al.   CARBON

Bio-Inspired Laminates of Different Material Systems

(2019) J. L. Liu et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED MECHANICS-TRANSACTIONS OF THE ASME

All-carbon multi-scale and hierarchical fibers and related structural composites: A review

(2019) József Karger-Kocsis et al.   COMPOSITES SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Vibro-acoustic performance and design of annular cellular structures with graded auxetic mechanical metamaterials

(2019) Qing Li et al.   JOURNAL OF SOUND AND VIBRATION

“Brick-and-Mortar” Nanostructured Interphase for Glass-Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Composites

(2018) Francois De Luca et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Revealing the Mechanics of Helicoidal Composites through Additive Manufacturing and Beetle Developmental Stage Analysis

(2018) Alireza Zaheri et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Biomimetic Structural Materials: Inspiration from Design and Assembly

(2018) Nicholas A. Yaraghi et al.   Annual Review of Physical Chemistry

Hoberman-sphere-inspired lattice metamaterials with tunable negative thermal expansion

(2018) Yangbo Li et al.   COMPOSITE STRUCTURES

Crack twisting and toughening strategies in Bouligand architectures

(2018) Nobphadon Suksangpanya et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOLIDS AND STRUCTURES

Mechanical behaviors of hierarchical cellular structures with negative Poisson’s ratio

(2018) Jiahong Hou et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS SCIENCE

Increasing damage tolerance in composites using hierarchical brick-and-mortar microstructures

(2018) J. Henry et al.   JOURNAL OF THE MECHANICS AND PHYSICS OF SOLIDS

Design of buckling-induced mechanical metamaterials for energy absorption using topology optimization

(2018) Qi Chen et al.   STRUCTURAL AND MULTIDISCIPLINARY OPTIMIZATION

Increasing carbon fiber composite strength with a nanostructured “brick-and-mortar” interphase

(2018) Francois De Luca et al.   Materials Horizons

Nanofibrils in nature and materials engineering

(2018) Shengjie Ling et al.   Nature Reviews Materials

Artificial 3D hierarchical and isotropic porous polymeric materials

(2018) Stefan Chisca et al.   Science Advances

The Rise of Hierarchical Nanostructured Materials from Renewable Sources: Learning from Nature

(2018) Francisco J. Martin-Martinez et al.   ACS Nano

Novel Defense Mechanisms in the Armor of the Scales of the “Living Fossil” Coelacanth Fish

(2018) Haocheng Quan et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Ron Resch Origami Pattern Inspired Energy Absorption Structures

(2018) Zhe Chen et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED MECHANICS-TRANSACTIONS OF THE ASME

Processing bulk natural wood into a high-performance structural material

(2018) Jianwei Song et al.   NATURE

Biomimetic twisted plywood structural materials

(2018) Si-Ming Chen et al.   National Science Review

Biomimetic architected materials with improved dynamic performance

(2018) Zian Jia et al.   JOURNAL OF THE MECHANICS AND PHYSICS OF SOLIDS

Out-of-plane bending of carbon nanotube films

(2017) Fei Pan et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOLIDS AND STRUCTURES

Twisting cracks in Bouligand structures

(2017) Nobphadon Suksangpanya et al.   Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials

Mechanical properties of crossed-lamellar structures in biological shells: A review

(2017) X.W. Li et al.   Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials

Printing nature: Unraveling the role of nacre's mineral bridges

(2017) Grace X. Gu et al.   Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials

Spiral interface: A reinforcing mechanism for laminated composite materials learned from nature

(2017) Yang Gao et al.   JOURNAL OF THE MECHANICS AND PHYSICS OF SOLIDS

Three-dimensional mechanical metamaterials with a twist

(2017) Tobias Frenzel et al.   SCIENCE

Bioinspired high toughness graphene/ZrB 2 hybrid composites with hierarchical architectures spanning several length scales

(2016) Yumin An et al.   CARBON

Carbon fiber/carbon nanotube reinforced hierarchical composites: Effect of CNT distribution on shearing strength

(2016) H.W. Zhou et al.   COMPOSITES PART B-ENGINEERING

Hierarchical Structure Enhances and Tunes the Damping Behavior of Load-Bearing Biological Materials

(2016) Mahan Qwamizadeh et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED MECHANICS-TRANSACTIONS OF THE ASME

Micromechanical design of hierarchical composites using global load sharing theory

(2016) V.P. Rajan et al.   JOURNAL OF THE MECHANICS AND PHYSICS OF SOLIDS

Stiffness thresholds of buckypapers under arbitrary loads

(2016) Fei Pan et al.   MECHANICS OF MATERIALS

Hierarchical lightweight composite materials for structural applications

(2016) Larissa Gorbatikh et al.   MRS BULLETIN

Computational modeling of the mechanics of hierarchical materials

(2016) Stefano Signetti et al.   MRS BULLETIN

Multiscale metallic metamaterials

(2016) Xiaoyu Zheng et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Interlocking assembled 3D auxetic cellular structures

(2016) Xin-Tao Wang et al.   MATERIALS & DESIGN

Design of lattice structures with controlled anisotropy

(2016) Shanqing Xu et al.   MATERIALS & DESIGN

Structure and mechanics of interfaces in biological materials

(2016) Francois Barthelat et al.   Nature Reviews Materials

A Natural 3D Interconnected Laminated Composite with Enhanced Damage Resistance

(2015) Ling Li et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Effects of geometrical and mechanical properties of fiber and matrix on composite fracture toughness

(2015) Yuli Chen et al.   COMPOSITE STRUCTURES

Theoretical estimation on the percolation threshold for polymer matrix composites with hybrid fillers

(2015) Yuli Chen et al.   COMPOSITE STRUCTURES

Impact behavior and fractographic study of carbon nanotubes grafted carbon fiber-reinforced epoxy matrix multi-scale hybrid composites

(2015) S.P. Sharma et al.   COMPOSITES PART A-APPLIED SCIENCE AND MANUFACTURING

Carbon Nanotube Reinforced Composites: The Smaller Diameter, the Higher Fracture Toughness?

(2015) Yuli Chen et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED MECHANICS-TRANSACTIONS OF THE ASME

On the relationship between the dynamic behavior and nanoscale staggered structure of the bone

(2015) Mahan Qwamizadeh et al.   JOURNAL OF THE MECHANICS AND PHYSICS OF SOLIDS

Stiffness threshold of randomly distributed carbon nanotube networks

(2015) Yuli Chen et al.   JOURNAL OF THE MECHANICS AND PHYSICS OF SOLIDS

The role of quasi-plasticity in the extreme contact damage tolerance of the stomatopod dactyl club

(2015) Shahrouz Amini et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Origami structures with a critical transition to bistability arising from hidden degrees of freedom

(2015) Jesse L. Silverberg et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Structures, mechanical properties and applications of silk fibroin materials

(2015) Leng-Duei Koh et al.   PROGRESS IN POLYMER SCIENCE

Hierarchical honeycomb auxetic metamaterials

(2015) Davood Mousanezhad et al.   Scientific Reports

Enhanced thermal shock resistance of ultra-high temperature ceramic by biomimetic surface modification

(2015) Baoxi Zhang et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry A

Protective role of Arapaima gigas fish scales: Structure and mechanical behavior

(2014) Wen Yang et al.   Acta Biomaterialia

Tensile behavior of heat welded CNT network structures

(2014) Alper T. Celebi et al.   COMPUTATIONAL MATERIALS SCIENCE

Bioinspired structural materials

(2014) Ulrike G. K. Wegst et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Multifunctional, robust, light-weight, free-standing MWCNT/phenolic composite paper as anodes for lithium ion batteries and EMI shielding material

(2014) Satish Teotia et al.   RSC Advances

Origami based Mechanical Metamaterials

(2014) Cheng Lv et al.   Scientific Reports

Processing of fiber architecture data for finite element modeling of 3D woven composites

(2013) Andrew Drach et al.   ADVANCES IN ENGINEERING SOFTWARE

Enhanced mechanical properties of carbon nanotube networks by mobile and discrete binders

(2013) Chao Wang et al.   CARBON

Theoretical prediction and experimental verification of pulling carbon nanotubes from carbon fiber prepared by chemical grafting method

(2013) Chao Wang et al.   COMPOSITES PART A-APPLIED SCIENCE AND MANUFACTURING

Fatigue of multiscale composites with secondary nanoplatelet reinforcement: 3D computational analysis

(2013) Gaoming Dai et al.   COMPOSITES SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Highly Enhanced Damping Figure of Merit in Biomimetic Hierarchical Staggered Composites

(2013) Pu Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED MECHANICS-TRANSACTIONS OF THE ASME

Mechanical adaptability of the Bouligand-type structure in natural dermal armour

(2013) Elizabeth A. Zimmermann et al.   Nature Communications

Multiscale Experimental Mechanics of Hierarchical Carbon-Based Materials

(2012) Horacio D. Espinosa et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

On the practicability of pentamode mechanical metamaterials

(2012) Muamer Kadic et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Study on the axial compression buckling behaviors of concentric multi-walled cylindrical shells filled with soft materials

(2012) J. Wu et al.   JOURNAL OF THE MECHANICS AND PHYSICS OF SOLIDS

Multi-scale modelling of elastic moduli of trabecular bone

(2012) E. Hamed et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

The hierarchical structure and mechanics of plant materials

(2012) L. J. Gibson   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Carbon nanotube yarns

(2012) Junbeom Park et al.   KOREAN JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING

The Stomatopod Dactyl Club: A Formidable Damage-Tolerant Biological Hammer

(2012) J. C. Weaver et al.   SCIENCE

Synergistic toughening of composite fibres by self-alignment of reduced graphene oxide and carbon nanotubes

(2012) Min Kyoon Shin et al.   Nature Communications

Mechanotunable Microstructures of Carbon Nanotube Networks

(2012) Chao Wang et al.   ACS Macro Letters

Flaw Tolerance of Nuclear Intermediate Filament Lamina under Extreme Mechanical Deformation

(2011) Zhao Qin et al.   ACS Nano

Effect of fiber arrangement on mechanical properties of short fiber reinforced composites

(2011) H.F. Lei et al.   COMPOSITES SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Mechanical properties and the laminate structure of Arapaima gigas scales

(2011) Y.S. Lin et al.   Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials

Is Stress Concentration Relevant for Nanocrystalline Metals?

(2011) Sandeep Kumar et al.   NANO LETTERS

A Multiscale Study of High Performance Double-Walled Nanotube−Polymer Fibers

(2010) Mohammad Naraghi et al.   ACS Nano

Structural Origin of the Strain-Hardening of Spider Silk

(2010) Ning Du et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

A theoretical evaluation of load transfer in multi-walled carbon nanotubes

(2010) Y.L. Chen et al.   CARBON

Vibration promotes heat welding of single-walled carbon nanotubes

(2010) N.M. Piper et al.   CHEMICAL PHYSICS LETTERS

Failure analysis and the optimal toughness design of carbon nanotube-reinforced composites

(2010) Y.L. Chen et al.   COMPOSITES SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Hierarchical composites: Analysis of damage evolution based on fiber bundle model

(2010) Leon Mishnaevsky Jr.   COMPOSITES SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Covalent crosslinking of single-walled carbon nanotubes with poly(allylamine) to produce mechanically robust composites

(2010) Amro Satti et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY

Mechanical properties of unidirectional nanocomposites with non-uniformly or randomly staggered platelet distribution

(2010) Z.Q. Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF THE MECHANICS AND PHYSICS OF SOLIDS

Nanostructure and molecular mechanics of spider dragline silk protein assemblies

(2010) S. Keten et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Nanoconfinement controls stiffness, strength and mechanical toughness of β-sheet crystals in silk

(2010) Sinan Keten et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Influence of Structural Principles on the Mechanics of a Biological Fiber-Based Composite Material with Hierarchical Organization: The Exoskeleton of the LobsterHomarus americanus

(2009) Helge-Otto Fabritius et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Notch insensitive fracture in nanoscale thin films

(2009) S. Kumar et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

The effective Young’s modulus of composites beyond the Voigt estimation due to the Poisson effect

(2009) Bin Liu et al.   COMPOSITES SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Mechanical and electrical properties of cross-linked carbon nanotubes

(2008) Seung I. Cha et al.   CARBON

A review and analysis of electrical percolation in carbon nanotube polymer composites

(2008) Wolfgang Bauhofer et al.   COMPOSITES SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Geometric Confinement Governs the Rupture Strength of H-bond Assemblies at a Critical Length Scale

(2008) Sinan Keten et al.   NANO LETTERS

Sign Change of Poisson's Ratio for Carbon Nanotube Sheets

(2008) L. J. Hall et al.   SCIENCE

Mechanical strength of abalone nacre: Role of the soft organic layer

(2007) Marc André Meyers et al.   Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials

Biological materials: Structure and mechanical properties

(2007) Marc André Meyers et al.   PROGRESS IN MATERIALS SCIENCE