Expanding the Build Plate: Functional Morphing 3D Printed Structures Through Anisotropy

Certain types of patterned metamaterials—gridshells and honeycombs—are capable of bistable behavior through a tailored combination of local and global geometric parameters. This is an alternative to prestressed or composite materials, which are typically used to induce multistability in thin structu...

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Main Author: Evripides G. Loukaides
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-06-01
Series:Frontiers in Materials
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmats.2020.00159/full