Topology optimisation of mechanical metamaterials with additive manufacture

超材料引发了人们的兴趣，其潜在的应用范围广泛，如生物医学植入物，弹道屏障和声学斗篷。该项目旨在开发拓扑优化技术，将增材制造与五模机械超材料的计算设计相结合，这是一类新的人工复合材料，具有自然界中不易发现的弹性特性。这种方法的目的是创造新的超材料，具有非凡的性能和复杂的几何形状，可以很容易地制造。潜在的应用可能包括国防，车辆，生物医学，海洋用途，能源和斗篷。

Metamaterials have sparked a surge of interest with potential applications as diverse as biomedical implants, ballistic barriers, and acoustic cloaks. This project aims to develop topology optimisation technology, with the marriage of additive manufacturing for computational design of mechanical metamaterials of pentamode, which are a new class of artificial composites engineered to have elastic properties not easily found in nature. This approach aims to create novel metamaterials to have extraordinary properties and complex geometries that can be easily fabricated. Potential applications may include defense, vehicles, biomedicine, marine uses, energy and cloaks.