Noor Alyasiri, Clay Gifford, and Abhimanyu P Patel presented their work “Design and Manufacturing of Ultralight Lattice Metamaterials Inspired by Nature” at UTA Innovation Day 2022.This REU team is advised by Dr. Liu and Dr. Yang. This project proposes a new approach to power the beam lattice metamaterials by the innovative beam cross-sectional design. Inspired by dragonfly wing structures, a bio-inspired, hollow cross-section will be developed for the body-centered cubic (BCC) lattice metamaterial. A novel multiscale structural modeling approach called mechanics of structure genome (MSG) will be employed to compute the beam cross-sectional properties with different cross-sectional shapes. A deep learning neural network model will be developed to connect the cross-sectional design parameters to the cross-sectional properties.
