On the crack resistance and damage tolerance of 3D-printed nature-inspired hierarchical composite architecture

Siwon Yu, Seunggyu Park, Kang Taek Lee, Jun Yeon Hwang (), Soon Hyung Hong () and Thomas James Marrow ()
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Siwon Yu: University of Oxford
Seunggyu Park: Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST)
Kang Taek Lee: Yuseong-gu
Jun Yeon Hwang: Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST)
Soon Hyung Hong: Yuseong-gu
Thomas James Marrow: University of Oxford

Nature Communications, 2024, vol. 15, issue 1, 1-14

Abstract: Abstract Materials scientists have taken a learn-from-nature approach to study the structure-property relationships of natural materials. Here we introduce a nature-inspired composite architecture showing a hierarchical assembly of granular-like building blocks with specific topological textures. The structural complexity of the resulting architecture is advanced by applying the concept of grain orientation internally to each building block to induce a tailored crack resistance. Hexagonal grain-shaped building blocks are filled with parallel-oriented filament bundles, and these function as stiff-blocks with high anisotropy due to the embedded fiber reinforcements. Process-induced interfacial voids, which provide preferential crack paths, are strategically integrated with cracks to improve fracture toughness at the macroscopic scale. This study discusses the structural effects of the local/global orientations, stacking sequences, feature sizes, and gradient assemblies of granular blocks on crack tolerance behavior. Alternating stacking sequences induce cracks propagating in the arrestor direction, which boost the fracture energy up to 2.4 times higher than the same layup stacking sequence. Gradient arrangements of feature sizes from coarse to fine or fine to coarse result in the coexistence of stiffness and toughness. Our approach to applying crystallographic concepts to complex composite architectures inspires for original models of fracture mechanics.

Date: 2024
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