Hedayati, R. (author), Jedari Salami, S. (author), Li, Y. (author), Sadighi, M. (author), Zadpoor, A.A. (author) We study a special class of mechanical metamaterials, namely lattices, based on beams (struts) with nonuniform cross sections, of which pentamode mechanical metamaterials are a special case. Five symmetric beam types including simple cylinder, concave double cone, convex double cone, concave hyperbolic, and convex hyperbolic are considered....
journal article 2019