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  • Materials Science
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Metamaterials

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  • Digitization is revolutionizing information access, moving beyond physical constraints.
  • Material structure-property relationships are complex, high-dimensional, and nonlinear.
  • Programming these relationships offers potential for novel functionalities.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Introduce the concept of digital mechanical metamaterials (DMMs).
  • Demonstrate how programming digital states decouples structure and property design.
  • Explore the diverse functionalities achievable with DMMs.

Main Methods:

  • Representing binary stable states of a curved beam as digital bits.
  • Designing unit cells with three distinct deformation responses: compression-twist coupling (CTC), compression-shear coupling (CSC), and pure compression (PC).
  • Digitally programming a series of DMMs to achieve desired material behaviors.

Main Results:

  • One DMM unit cell exhibits three unique deformation modes with distinct motion and stiffness.
  • Programmable DMMs enable a wide range of functionalities.
  • Achieved functionalities include information encryption, customized stress-strain responses, energy absorption, vibration isolation, and tunable force transmission.

Conclusions:

  • Pioneered a versatile material design paradigm using digital mechanical metamaterials.
  • Decoupled structure and property design for enhanced functional programmability.
  • Opened new avenues for designing intelligent mechanical metamaterials with unprecedented freedom.