Abstract

Due to the advancements in additive manufacturing and increased applications of additive manufactured structures, it is essential to fully understand both the elastic and plastic behavior of cellular materials, which include the mathematically-driven triply periodic minimal surfaces (TPMS). The elastic and plastic behaviors have been well established for many TPMS structures. These structures are however rather computationally expensive to model explicitly when used in meta-materials and hence the need to develop an accurate yield function in order to model their plastic behavior in a homogenized approach. In this study, the effect of different loading conditions is numerically investigated on the effective yield strength of IWP ligament based (IWP-L) TPMS.