Tunable Metamaterials for Impact Mitigation

Smith, Lawrence; Hayes, Brandon; Ford, Kurtis Ross; Smith, Elizabeth Danielle Shunway; Flores, David Joseph DZehaven; MacCurdy, Robert

doi:10.1002/admt.202301668

Tunable Metamaterials for Impact Mitigation

Journal Article · Fri Jan 19 23:00:00 EST 2024 · Advanced Materials Technologies

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1002/admt.202301668· OSTI ID:2320348

^[1]; ^[1]; Ford, Kurtis Ross ^[2]; Smith, Elizabeth Danielle Shunway ^[2]; Flores, David Joseph DZehaven ^[2]; ^[1]

University of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States)
Sandia National Laboratories (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)

Traditional methods of shielding fragile goods and human tissues from impact energy rely on isotropic foam materials. The mechanical properties of these foams are inferior to an emerging class of metamaterials called plate lattices, which have predominantly been fabricated in simple 2.5-dimensional geometries using conventional methods that constrain the feasible design space. Here in this work, additive manufacturing is used to relax these constraints and realize plate lattice metamaterials with nontrivial, locally varying geometry. The limitations of traditional computer-aided design tools are circumvented and allow the simulation of complex buckling and collapse behaviors without a manual meshing step. By validating these simulations against experimental data from tests on fabricated samples, sweeping exploration of the plate lattice design space is enabled. Numerical and experimental tests demonstrate plate lattices absorb up to six times more impact energy at equivalent densities relative to foams and shield objects from impacts ten times more energetic while transmitting equivalent peak stresses. In contrast to previous investigations of plate lattice metamaterials, designs with nonuniform geometric prebuckling in the out-of-plane direction is explored and showed that these designs exhibit 10% higher energy absorption efficiency on average and 25% higher in the highest-performing design.

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Research Organization:: Sandia National Laboratories (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)

Grant/Contract Number:: NA0003525

OSTI ID:: 2320348

Report Number(s):: SAND--2024-02763J

Journal Information:: Advanced Materials Technologies, Journal Name: Advanced Materials Technologies Journal Issue: 2301668 Vol. 2301668; ISSN 2365-709X

Publisher:: WileyCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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