Affiliation:
1. Department of Industrial Engineering University of Padua Via Gradenigo 6/a Padua 35131 Italy
2. Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Norwegian University of Science and Technology Richard Birkelands vei 2B, Gløshaugen Trondheim 7491 Norway
3. Department of Management and Engineering University of Padua Stradella San Nicola 3 Vicenza 36100 Italy
4. Department of Chemical Engineering Materials and Environment Sapienza University of Rome Via Eudossiana 18 Rome 00184 Italy
Abstract
AbstractThe remarkable mechanical performance of architectural materials—composed of carefully designed building blocks—have received increasing interest from the scientific and engineering community in recent decades. Among architectural materials, lattice materials turned out to be the most promising structure to be further investigated as they offer many attractive properties for engineering applications—e.g., lightweight, auxetic effect, and high strength‐to‐weight ratio. Inspired by traditional Islamic Geometric Patterns (IGPs), this contribution investigates a new set of designs of lattice structures based on geometrical patterns easily controlled by a single designing parameter derived by the “Hasba” (measure in Arabic) method of construction of Islamic geometric patterns. Utilizing the commercial software Abaqus for finite element analysis, the mechanical behavior of an IGP‐inspired lattice structure is numerically analyzed, particularly focusing on its uniaxial in‐plane compressive properties under quasi‐static conditions and revealing, through buckle and postbuckle analyses with a hyperelastic material model, insights into the structural instability and of these innovative lattice structures.