Abstract

Pentamodes are lattice structures composed of beams. Their main property is the low ratio of the shear to bulk modulus, making them suitable for aerospace, antiseismic, and bioengineering applications. At first, in our study, pentamode structures were fabricated using three-dimensional printing and were tested in a laboratory. Then, computational analyses of bulk strength have been performed. In addition, several preliminary computational analyses have been considered, comparing different pentamodes’ dimensions and topologies in order to understand their behaviour under different loading conditions. Experimental results have been compared with the numerical results in order to validate the forces applied to the lattice structures. Our new contribution is that for the first time, the experimental and numerical results are investigated up to the failure of the specimens, the effective Young’s modulus has been calculated for different pentamode lattice structures, and our results are also compared with analytical equations.

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