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SUBMITTER: Shaw LA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6336888 | biostudies-other | 2019 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Nature communications 20190117 1
Designing mechanical metamaterials is overwhelming for most computational approaches because of the staggering number and complexity of flexible elements that constitute their architecture-particularly if these elements don't repeat in periodic patterns or collectively occupy irregular bulk shapes. We introduce an approach, inspired by the freedom and constraint topologies (FACT) methodology, that leverages simplified assumptions to enable the design of such materials with ~6 orders of magnitude ...[more]