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Journal of Advanced Ceramics 2022, 11(12): 1918-1931 https://doi.org/10.1007/s40145-022-0656-5
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Mechanical properties of additively-manufactured cellular ceramic structures: A comprehensive study

Show Author's Information Xueqin ZHANG1,  Keqiang ZHANG1,  Bin ZHANG2,  Ying LI1( ),  Rujie HE1( )
Institute of Advanced Structure Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
School of Naval Architecture, Ocean and Energy Power Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, China
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mechanical properties, cellular ceramic structures (CCSs), failure mode, structural parameters
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ZHANG X, ZHANG K, ZHANG B, et al. Mechanical properties of additively-manufactured cellular ceramic structures: A comprehensive study. Journal of Advanced Ceramics, 2022, 11(12): 1918-1931. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40145-022-0656-5
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Cellular ceramic structures (CCSs) are promising candidates for structural components in aerospace and modern industry because of their extraordinary physical and chemical properties. Herein, the CCSs with different structural parameters, i.e., relative density, layer, size of unit cells, and structural configuration, were designed and prepared by digital light processing (DLP)-based additive manufacturing (AM) technology to investigate their responses under compressive loading systematically. It was demonstrated that as the relative density increased and the size of the unit cells decreased, the mechanical properties of one-layer CCSs increased. The mechanical properties of three-layer CCSs were more outstanding than those of the CCSs with one and two layers. In addition, structural configurations also played a vital role in the mechanical properties of the CCSs. Overall, the mechanical properties of the CCSs from superior to inferior were that with the structural configurations of modified body-centered cubic (MBCC), Octet, SchwarzP, IWP, and body-centered cubic (BCC). Furthermore, structural parameters also had significant impacts on the failure mode of the CCSs under compressive loading. As the relative density increased, the failure mode of the one-layer CCSs changed from parallel–vertical–inclined mode to parallel–vertical mode. It was worth noting that the size of the unit cells did not alter the failure mode. Inclined fracture took a greater proportion in the failure mode of the multi-layer CCSs. But it could be suppressed by the increased relative density. Similarly, the proportions of the parallel–vertical mode and the fracture along a specific plane always changed with the variation of the structural configurations. This study will serve as the base for investigating the mechanical properties of the CCSs.


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Mechanical properties of additively-manufactured cellular ceramic structures: A comprehensive study

Show Author's information Xueqin ZHANG1, Keqiang ZHANG1, Bin ZHANG2, Ying LI1( ), Rujie HE1( )
Institute of Advanced Structure Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
School of Naval Architecture, Ocean and Energy Power Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, China

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Cellular ceramic structures (CCSs) are promising candidates for structural components in aerospace and modern industry because of their extraordinary physical and chemical properties. Herein, the CCSs with different structural parameters, i.e., relative density, layer, size of unit cells, and structural configuration, were designed and prepared by digital light processing (DLP)-based additive manufacturing (AM) technology to investigate their responses under compressive loading systematically. It was demonstrated that as the relative density increased and the size of the unit cells decreased, the mechanical properties of one-layer CCSs increased. The mechanical properties of three-layer CCSs were more outstanding than those of the CCSs with one and two layers. In addition, structural configurations also played a vital role in the mechanical properties of the CCSs. Overall, the mechanical properties of the CCSs from superior to inferior were that with the structural configurations of modified body-centered cubic (MBCC), Octet, SchwarzP, IWP, and body-centered cubic (BCC). Furthermore, structural parameters also had significant impacts on the failure mode of the CCSs under compressive loading. As the relative density increased, the failure mode of the one-layer CCSs changed from parallel–vertical–inclined mode to parallel–vertical mode. It was worth noting that the size of the unit cells did not alter the failure mode. Inclined fracture took a greater proportion in the failure mode of the multi-layer CCSs. But it could be suppressed by the increased relative density. Similarly, the proportions of the parallel–vertical mode and the fracture along a specific plane always changed with the variation of the structural configurations. This study will serve as the base for investigating the mechanical properties of the CCSs.

Keywords: mechanical properties, cellular ceramic structures (CCSs), failure mode, structural parameters

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Received: 13 May 2022
Revised: 25 August 2022
Accepted: 19 September 2022
Published: 17 November 2022
Issue date: December 2022

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51772028).

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