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Design criteria for tough metamaterials

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A generalized strategy to characterize the failure of truss-based microlattices is established, creating a framework for designing tough, damage-tolerant architected materials.

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Fig. 1: Design strategy for creating tough 3D mechanical metamaterials.

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, China

    James Utama Surjadi & Yang Lu

  2. Hong Kong Institute for Advanced Study, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, China

    James Utama Surjadi & Yang Lu

  3. Nano-Manufacturing Laboratory (NML), Shenzhen Research Institute of City University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China

    Yang Lu

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Surjadi, J.U., Lu, Y. Design criteria for tough metamaterials. Nat. Mater. 21, 272–274 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-022-01193-6

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