Mechanical Behavior of Advanced TPMS Structures: Latest Advances and Prospects
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials Science and Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 June 2025 | Viewed by 113
Special Issue Editor
Interests: TPMS structures; composite materials; additive manufacturing; lightweight structures; product development
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Triply periodic minimal surface (TPMS) structures continue to represent a significant area of research with implications for different industries like aerospace and automotive, biomedical implants, and energy storage. TPMS structures offer a wide range of geometries that combine their unique properties to create lightweight structures that have an increased energy absorption, offering shock mitigation and high stress distribution. At the same time, composites using such structures are rapidly developing and offer reliable alternatives for several industries.
This Special Issue focuses on high-quality original research papers, review studies, and short communications in any field connected to the mechanical behavior of advanced materials using TPMS structures. Such advanced materials are highly influenced by several parameters like graded porosity, curvature variation, mean curvature flow optimization, adaptive wall thickness, customized unit cell geometries, multi-material integration, topology optimization, and manufacturing constraints. All of the abovementioned parameters create advanced materials with enhanced mechanical behavior, and for this reason, new manufacturing technologies, methods, and procedures applied for obtaining such structures and their unique usefulness in engineering applications are welcome. Authors are encouraged to submit papers that show the correlations between different parameters used in their design and the mechanical behavior of their structures.
Dr. Dragoș Alexandru Apostol
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- TPMS composites
- topology optimization
- adaptive thickness
- functionally graded materials
- customized geometries
- multi-material integration
- lightweight prosthetics
- TPMS filters
- TPMS batteries
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