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Md Shahjahan Hossain¹, Hossein Ebrahimi¹, Ranajay Ghosh¹

¹Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, United States of America.

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Researchers created tailorable anisotropic plates using fish-scale features and strings. This biomimetic design exhibits broken symmetries, enabling tunable mechanical properties for advanced applications.

Keywords:

Anisotropy Bending rigidity Finite element (FE) modeling Metamaterials

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Area of Science:

Materials Science
Biomimetics
Mechanical Engineering

Background:

Architected materials offer tunable properties through structural design.
Biomimetic approaches can inspire novel material functionalities.
Anisotropic materials exhibit direction-dependent mechanical responses.

Purpose of the Study:

To synthesize and characterize geometrically tailorable anisotropic plates.
To investigate the role of broken symmetries in mechanical behavior.
To develop an analytical model for predicting anisotropic elasticity.

Main Methods:

Combining button-shaped, fish-scale-like features on soft substrates.
Lacing structures with high-stiffness strings to create tendon plates.
Conducting 3-point bending experiments to assess anisotropy.
Formulating an energy-based analytical model for elasticity.

Main Results:

Successful synthesis of architected plates with multiple broken symmetries.
Demonstrated clear anisotropy in bending response via experiments.
Developed a model quantifying anisotropic elasticity.
Established architecture-property relationships for design.

Conclusions:

The novel biomimetic architected plates exhibit tunable anisotropic properties.
The analytical model accurately quantifies elasticity and guides design.
This work provides a framework for designing advanced architected materials.