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. 2022 Apr 5;13:1816. doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-29484-1

Fig. 5. Out-of-plane compression response of cellular origami-inspired metamaterials.

Fig. 5

Fabricated samples and measured properties of N^4n6(7, 7) and N^6n6(7, 7) unit in dissimilar lock modes; a Top view illustration of N^4n6(7, 7) sample showing its primitive unit cell, and tessellation base vectors and tessellation levels. Engineering stress-strain curves measured for b N^4n6(7, 7) in two lock configurations A2 and AO, and for c N^6n6(7, 7) in two lock configurations A3 and A2O. In b and c the shaded domain describes the dispersion of the results obtained from testing three samples. d Normalized compressive Young’s modulus (triangle symbols) and normalized yield strength (circle symbols) of N^4n6(7, 7) vs. relative density. Error bars represent the standard deviation of our measurements. The subset in d schematically illustrates how the compressive Young’s modulus E* and yield strength σ* were measured. Cyclic (compressive loading-unloading) response of e N^4n6(7, 7) (after ten cycles) and f N^6n6(7, 7) (after four cycles) in their most compact lock modes A2 and A3, respectively, showing the cyclic response stabilizes nearly after four cycles. In these experiments, the unloading is performed at 75% of the compressive strength of the initial cycle of each sample.