Lattice-skin structures composed of a thin-shell skin and lattice infill are widespread in nature large-scale engineering due to their efficiency exceptional mechanical properties. Recent advances additive manufacturing, or 3D printing, make it possible create lattice-skin almost any size with arbitrary shape geometric complexity. We propose novel gradient-based approach optimising both the imp...

Abstract The increasing demand for energy absorbent structures, paired with the need more efficient use of materials in a wide range engineering fields, has led to an extensive designs porous forms sandwiches, honeycomb, and foams. To achieve even better performance, ingenious solution is learn how biological structures adjust their configurations absorb without catastrophic failure. In this st...

Innovative additive manufacturing processes open new design opportunities, in the field of periodic cellular shock absorbers. In this work, an experimental campaign on lattice samples has been developed and carried out for intermediate velocities. The geometries used tests are result a sensitivity analysis conducted previous work. As complement to results provided by numerical model analysis, h...

Thermodynamically driven short-range order (SRO) is known to exist in multi-component alloys and can influence their mechanical properties. Atomistic mesoscale simulations are frequently used study the effects of SRO, but introducing SRO into lattice usually requires costly Monte Carlo simulations. Here, we develop a novel method open-source code create lattices with specified parameters that b...