Elastic response of hollow truss lattice micro-architectures
Abstract
Elastic meta-materials, which we will treat herein as synonymous with elastic micro-architected materials, derive their unique combination of properties from the fine scale geometry of their solid and void regions. Recent advances in additive manufacturing have made the fabrication of such micro-architected materials feasible, and have driven interest in their properties. We consider the class of elastic meta-materials whose micro-architectures are composed of a network of straight struts connected at nodes arranged within a repeating unit cell; the octet truss is one well-known example of such truss lattices. Heretofore, the majority of work characterizing such truss lattices has considered solid struts and has been based on rod theory, a simplification of continuum elasticity which is accurate in the limit of low relative densities. In this paper, we use full continuum theory, solved with finite element analysis on adaptively refined meshes, to characterize the elastic performance of seven truss lattices with cubic geometric symmetry, and whose struts and nodes are hollow; we consider a wide range of strut wall thicknesses and truss relative densities. Varying the wall thickness provides an additional dimension of control, so that stiffness and anisotropy can, to an extent, be decoupled from the relative density of amore »
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA); USDOE Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1901432
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1738888; OSTI ID: 1809260
- Report Number(s):
- LLNL-JRNL-792137
Journal ID: ISSN 0020-7683; S0020768320303231; PII: S0020768320303231
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC52-07NA27344; 19-FS-005
- Resource Type:
- Published Article
- Journal Name:
- International Journal of Solids and Structures
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: International Journal of Solids and Structures Journal Volume: 206 Journal Issue: C; Journal ID: ISSN 0020-7683
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; Elasticity; meta-materials; truss lattice; surrogate model; finite element methods
Citation Formats
Watts, Seth. Elastic response of hollow truss lattice micro-architectures. United States: N. p., 2020.
Web. doi:10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2020.08.018.
Watts, Seth. Elastic response of hollow truss lattice micro-architectures. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2020.08.018
Watts, Seth. Tue .
"Elastic response of hollow truss lattice micro-architectures". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2020.08.018.
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title = {Elastic response of hollow truss lattice micro-architectures},
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abstractNote = {Elastic meta-materials, which we will treat herein as synonymous with elastic micro-architected materials, derive their unique combination of properties from the fine scale geometry of their solid and void regions. Recent advances in additive manufacturing have made the fabrication of such micro-architected materials feasible, and have driven interest in their properties. We consider the class of elastic meta-materials whose micro-architectures are composed of a network of straight struts connected at nodes arranged within a repeating unit cell; the octet truss is one well-known example of such truss lattices. Heretofore, the majority of work characterizing such truss lattices has considered solid struts and has been based on rod theory, a simplification of continuum elasticity which is accurate in the limit of low relative densities. In this paper, we use full continuum theory, solved with finite element analysis on adaptively refined meshes, to characterize the elastic performance of seven truss lattices with cubic geometric symmetry, and whose struts and nodes are hollow; we consider a wide range of strut wall thicknesses and truss relative densities. Varying the wall thickness provides an additional dimension of control, so that stiffness and anisotropy can, to an extent, be decoupled from the relative density of a given truss lattice. Furthermore, we show that a truss’ stiffness can be increased at fixed relative density, with bend-dominated truss lattices showing significantly greater improvement than stretch-dominated designs. Increases in stiffness by a factor of greater than five are observed, and increases by a factor of 100 or more are obtainable. Bend-dominated structures with hollow struts can be found that are stiffer than stretch-dominated ones at nearly all relative densities, contradicting a common rule of thumb. For some trusses, including the octet truss, choosing the wall thickness appropriately allows one to obtain isotropic response over a large range of volume fractions. We use topology optimization to find maximally stiff multiscale structures comprised of micro-architected materials and find that all the trusses we consider perform similarly, with anisotropic trusses resulting in slightly stiffer structures for a given load.},
doi = {10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2020.08.018},
journal = {International Journal of Solids and Structures},
number = C,
volume = 206,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Dec 01 00:00:00 EST 2020},
month = {Tue Dec 01 00:00:00 EST 2020}
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2020.08.018
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