3 papers
cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025
Fracture of disordered and stochastic lattice materials
Sage Fulco, Prashant K. Purohit, Michal K. Budzik +1
The failure of mechanical metamaterials is a function of the interplay between the properties of the base material and the microstructural geometry. Stochastic failure properties o…
physics.app-ph2024
A Substructure Perturbation Method for Systematic Design of Mechanical Metamaterials with Programmed Functionalities
Jiakun Liu, Adam Taylor, Sage Fulco +2
Mechanical metamaterials utilize geometry to achieve exceptional mechanical properties, including those not typically possible for traditional materials. To achieve these propertie…
cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024
Disorder Enhances the Fracture Toughness of Mechanical Metamaterials
Sage Fulco, Michal K. Budzik, Hongyi Xiao +2
Mechanical metamaterials with engineered failure properties typically rely on periodic unit cell geometries or bespoke microstructures to achieve their unique properties. We demons…