期刊名称:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
印刷版ISSN:0027-8424
电子版ISSN:1091-6490
出版年度:2019
卷号:116
期号:48
页码:23960-23965
DOI:10.1073/pnas.1911535116
出版社:The National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
摘要:Architected materials or metamaterials have proved to be a very effective way of making materials with unusual mechanical properties. For example, by designing the mesoscale geometry of architected materials, it is possible to obtain extremely high stiffness-to-weight ratio or unusual Poisson’s ratio. However, much of this work has focused on designing properties like stiffness and density, and much remains unknown about the critical load to failure. This is the focus of the current work. We show that the addition of local internal prestress in selected regions of architected materials enables the design of materials where the critical load to failure can be optimized independently from the density and/or quasistatic stiffness. We propose a method to optimize the specific load to failure and specific stiffness using sensitivity analysis and derive the maximum bounds on the attainable properties. We demonstrate the method in a 2D triangular lattice and a 3D octahedral truss, showing excellent agreement between experimental and theoretical results. The method can be used to design materials with predetermined fracture load, failure location, and fracture paths..