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Damage-tolerant architected materials inspired by crystal microstructure

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Architected materials that consist of periodic arrangements of nodes and struts are lightweight and can exhibit combinations of properties (such as negative Poisson ratios) that do not occur in conventional solids. Architected materials reported previously are usually constructed from identical ‘unit cells’ arranged so that they all have the same orientation. As a result, when loaded beyond the yield point, localized bands of high stress emerge, causing catastrophic collapse of the mechanical strength of the material. This ‘post-yielding collapse’ is analogous to the rapid decreases in stress associated with dislocation slip in metallic single crystals. Here we use the hardening mechanisms found in crystalline materials to develop architected materials that are robust and damage-tolerant, by mimicking the microscale structure of crystalline materials—such as grain boundaries, precipitates and phases. The crystal-inspired mesoscale structures  in our architected materials are as important for their mechanical properties as are crystallographic microstructures in metallic alloys. Our approach combines the hardening principles of metallurgy and architected materials, enabling the design of materials with desired properties.

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Fig. 1: Lattice structures and deformation behaviour.
Fig. 2: Role of lattice orientation in the deformation behaviour of crystals and architected lattices.
Fig. 3: Precipitation and multiphase hardening in architected materials.
Fig. 4: Lightweight and damage-tolerant architected materials inspired by crystal microstructure.

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The datasets generated and analysed during this study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.

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  • 28 February 2019

    In Fig. 4a of this Article, owing to an error in the production process, the scale bar inadvertently read 1 mm instead of 1 m. This error has been corrected online.

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Acknowledgements

M.-S.P. thanks A. Rollett, F. Dunne, C. Gourlay and S. Holdsworth for discussions, T. Walton and P. Hooper for fabricating some lattices, A. Piglione for providing an SEM image of γ/γ′ microstructure, and an Engineering Alloys Fellowship awarded by the Department of Materials, Imperial College London. M.-S.P. also thanks M. M. Attallah and D. M. Dimiduk for providing the original versions of Fig. 1b, f. I.T. is grateful for funding through EPSRC grants EP/P006566/1 and EP/L02513/1, and the Royal Academy of Engineering.

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M.-S.P. developed the idea and directed the research. C.L. carried out the computer-aided design, fabrication, mechanical tests and post analyses. J.L. performed the FEM. I.T. discussed and contributed to the development of the concept. All the authors participated in analysing and interpreting the data. The manuscript was written and approved by all authors.

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Extended data figures and tables

Extended Data Fig. 1 Mimicking a crystal lattice.

a, Unit cell of the fcc lattice. b, A macro-lattice cube consisting of 8 × 8 × 8 macro-unit cells. c–e, The rotation sequence to form a twin meta-grain.

Extended Data Fig. 2 Different numbers of meta-grains within the same global volume (40 mm × 40 mm × 40 mm).

a, A single meta-grain. b, c, Two twinned meta-grains, with (b) and without (c) the outer frame. d–h, Four (d), eight (e), 16 (f), 18 (g) and 27 (h) meta-grains. The locations of the boundaries are highlighted.

Extended Data Fig. 3 Repeatability of the mechanical behaviour of architected materials.

a–c, Materials consisting of two (a), eight (b) and 16 (c) meta-grains.

Extended Data Fig. 4 Effect of meta-grain size on mechanical strength.

a, Stress–strain curves of architected materials consisting of different numbers of meta-grains. b, The flow stress σf of architected materials containing meta-grains at a given nominal strain of 40% increases as the size of the meta-grains decreases.

Extended Data Fig. 5 Mimicking crystalline grains separated by incoherent high-angle boundaries.

a, Model of eight meta-grains. b, c, The orientations of lattices (with respect to the global X, Y and Z co-ordinates) in the four meta-grains in the top (b) and bottom (c) layers.

Extended Data Fig. 6 Deformation behaviour of an architected material containing eight meta-grains separated by incoherent high-angle boundaries.

a, b, Macro-lattice fabricated from 316L stainless steel (a) and an elasto-plastic polymer (b). c, d, Stress–strain constitutive behaviour of the macro-lattices fabricated from the steel (c) and polymer (d).

Extended Data Fig. 7 Mimicking precipitates.

a, Meta-precipitate lattice (orange) embedded in the matrix. b, Cubic morphology and locations of meta-precipitates inside the fcc meta-phase. c, fcc unit cell of the matrix. d, Face-centred tetragonal unit cell of the meta-precipitate.

Extended Data Fig. 8 Repeatability of the mechanical behaviour of an architected material.

This material contains 25 meta-precipitates.

Extended Data Fig. 9 Mimicking multiple phases.

a, Single fcc-phase meta-grain. b, Single bcc-phase meta-grain. c, A cube of meta-polygrains (left panel) consisting of two meta-phases: fcc (top and bottom layers; middle panel) and bcc (middle layer; right panel).

Extended Data Fig. 10 Kresling lattice.

a, Unit cell. b, hcp-inspired meta-phase.

Extended Data Fig. 11 Helical movement changes the stack sequence of nodes.

Red lines represent the helical movements of basal nodes; for clarity, only the movement of basal nodes on the top plane are shown.

Extended Data Table 1 Mechanical properties of base materials
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Video 1

Finite-element method simulation of an architected material containing two twinned meta-grains mimicking twinned bi-crystals. Colour represents the degrees of true strain during compression

Video 2

Experimental record of the deformation behaviour of an architected hexagonal lattice during a compression loading–unloading cycle

Video 3

Finite-element method simulation of the deformation behaviour of an architected hexagonal lattice during a compression loading–unloading cycle. Colour represents the degrees of true strain during deformation

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