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Mechanical Characteristics Analysis of 3D-printing Novel Chiral Honeycomb Array Structures Based on Functional Principle and Constitutive Relationship

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Four novel chiral honeycomb structures inspired by the biological arrangement shape are designed. The functional principle is raised to solve the large deformation of bio-inspired structures and the structural constitutive model is proposed to explain the quasi-static mechanical properties of chiral honeycomb array structures and honeycomb structures. Simulation and experiment results verify the accuracy of theoretical analysis results and the errors are all within 15%. In structural mechanical properties, Equidimensional Chiral Honeycomb Array Structure (ECHS) has excellent mechanical properties. Among ECHS, Small-sized Column Chiral Honeycomb Array Structure (SCHCS) has the best properties. The bearing capacity, specific energy absorption, and specific strength of SCHCS are more than twice as much as the others in this paper. The chiral honeycomb array structure has the best mechanical properties at a certain size. In the structural design, the optimal size model should be obtained first in combination with the optimization algorithm for the protection design.

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Acknowledgements

This work is supported by National Key R&D program of of China (No. 2022YFB4600500), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51975246), the Science and Technology Development Program of Jilin Province, China (No. 20220101192JC), Capital construction fund plan within the budget of Jilin Province (No. 2023C041-4), Chongqing Natural Science Foundation (No. CSSTB2022NSCQ-MSX0225).

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  1. Department of Mechanics, School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Jilin University, Changchun, 130022, China

    Ruiyao Liu & Guofeng Yao

  2. Key Laboratory of Bionic Engineering of Ministry of Education, Jilin University, Changchun, 130022, China

    Zezhou Xu, Xue Guo, Jianyong Li, Zhenglei Yu, Ping Liang & Zhihui Zhang

  3. State Key Laboratory of Automotive Simulation and Control, Jilin University, Changchun, 130022, China

    Zhenglei Yu

  4. Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, 130022, China

    Chunyang Han

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RL: writing—original draft, writing—review and editing, visualization, project administration, data curation, formal analysis, methodology, software, formal analysis. GY: writing—review and editing, visualization, supervision, conceptualization, validation. ZX: writing—review and editing. XG: writing—review and editing. KG: writing—review and editing. JL: writing—review and editing. ZY: writing—review and editing, visualization, funding acquisition, resources, conceptualization, validation. PL: writing—review and editing, visualization, funding acquisition. ZZ: writing—review and editing. CH: writing—review and editing.

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Liu, R., Yao, G., Xu, Z. et al. Mechanical Characteristics Analysis of 3D-printing Novel Chiral Honeycomb Array Structures Based on Functional Principle and Constitutive Relationship. J Bionic Eng 20, 1917–1929 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42235-023-00364-8

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