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Journal Articles Mechanics of Materials Year : 2023

Inverse-designed growth-based cellular metamaterials

Prakash Thakolkaran
Jonàs Martínez
Siddhant Kumar

Abstract

Advancements in machine learning have sparked significant interest in designing mechanical metamaterials, i.e., materials that derive their properties from their inherent microstructure rather than just their constituent material. We propose a data-driven exploration of the design space of growth-based cellular metamaterials based on star-shaped distances. These two-dimensional metamaterials are based on periodically-repeating unit cells consisting of material and void patterns with non-trivial geometries. Machine learning models exploiting large datasets are then employed to inverse design growth-based metamaterials for tailored anisotropic stiffness. Firstly, a forward model is created to bypass the growth and homogenization process and accurately predict the mechanical properties given a finite set of design parameters. Secondly, an inverse model is used to invert the structure–property maps and enable the accurate prediction of designs for a given anisotropic stiffness query. We successfully demonstrate the frameworks’ generalization capabilities by inverse designing for stiffness properties chosen from outside the domain of the design space.

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hal-04091373 , version 1 (08-05-2023)

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Sikko van ’t Sant, Prakash Thakolkaran, Jonàs Martínez, Siddhant Kumar. Inverse-designed growth-based cellular metamaterials. Mechanics of Materials, 2023, 182, pp.104668. ⟨10.1016/j.mechmat.2023.104668⟩. ⟨hal-04091373⟩
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