Issue 11, 2024

Inverse design of Bézier curve-based mechanical metamaterials with programmable negative thermal expansion and negative Poisson's ratio via a data augmented deep autoencoder

Abstract

Controlling stress and deformation induced by thermo-mechanical stimulation in high-precision mechanical systems can be achieved by mechanical metamaterials (MM) exhibiting negative thermal expansion (NTE) and negative Poisson's ratio (NPR). However, the inverse design of MM exhibiting a wide range of arbitrary target NTEs and NPRs is a challenging task due to the low design flexibility of analytical methods and parametric studies based on numerical simulation. In this study, we propose Bézier curve-based programmable chiral mechanical metamaterials (BPCMs) and a deep autoencoder-based inverse design model (DAIM) for the inverse design of BPCMs. Through iterative transfer learning with data augmentation, DAIM can generate BPCMs with a curved rib shape inaccessible with the Bézier curve, which improves the inverse design performance of the DAIM in the data sparse domain. This approach decreases the mean absolute error of NTE and NPR between the inverse design target and the numerical simulation results of inverse designed BPCMs on the data-sparse domain by 79.25% and 83.33% on average, respectively. A 3D-printed BPCM is validated experimentally and exhibits good coincidence with the target NTE and NPR. Our proposed BPCM and the corresponding inverse design framework enable the inverse design of BPCMs with NTE in the range of −1100 to 0 ppm K−1 and NPR in the range of −0.6 to −0.1. Furthermore, programmable thermal deformation modes with a fixed Poisson's ratio are realized by combining various inverse designed BPCM unit cells. BPCMs and the DAIM for their inverse design are expected to improve the mechanical robustness of high-precision mechanical systems through tunable modulation of thermo-mechanical stimulation.

Graphical abstract: Inverse design of Bézier curve-based mechanical metamaterials with programmable negative thermal expansion and negative Poisson's ratio via a data augmented deep autoencoder

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Article information

Article type
Communication
Submitted
16 mar 2024
Accepted
25 apr 2024
First published
30 apr 2024
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY-NC license

Mater. Horiz., 2024,11, 2615-2627

Inverse design of Bézier curve-based mechanical metamaterials with programmable negative thermal expansion and negative Poisson's ratio via a data augmented deep autoencoder

M. W. Cho, K. Ko, M. Mohammadhosseinzadeh, J. H. Kim, D. Y. Park, D. S. Shin and S. M. Park, Mater. Horiz., 2024, 11, 2615 DOI: 10.1039/D4MH00302K

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