Trusses beyond trusses: intertwined and straw-based metamaterials and beyond.

Elias Pescialli, Junyu Chen, Konstantinos Karapiperis, Dotan Ilssar, Dennis M Kochmann

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Elias Pescialli *Mechanics and Materials Laboratory, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.

Junyu Chen *Mechanics and Materials Laboratory, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.

Konstantinos KarapiperisData-Driven Mechanics Laboratory, School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Dotan IlssarMechanics and Materials Laboratory, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.

Dennis M KochmannMechanics and Materials Laboratory, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.

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Abstract

Periodic beam-based metamaterials have been extensively explored for their tunable stiffness, strength, and wave dispersion. Recent efforts extend this concept by maintaining the lattice topology but replacing beams by more complex structural members-such as straws or intertwined fibers. These mechanical metamaterials leverage underexplored mechanisms from the small-scale design such as contact, friction, and sliding, or multistability and reversible reconfigurability. This provides opportunities for untapped design spaces and performance exploration.

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PMID41939418

DOI10.1038/s44455-026-00027-8

PMCPMC13048864

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