Enhancing energy absorption through sequential instabilities in mechanical metamaterials.

Structural components designed to absorb energy and shield a more valuable structure ideally require mechanical properties that combine a relatively high load-carrying capacity followed by a practically zero stiffness. This ensures that a specified energy quantity may be absorbed within a limited displacement and that any stress transfer to the valuable structure is minimized. Material damage has been historically mobilized to provide such properties, but this obviously renders such components to be single-use.

Probing in situ capacities of prestressed stayed columns: towards a novel structural health monitoring technique.

Prestressed stayed columns (PSCs) are structural systems whose compressive load-carrying capacity is enhanced through pre-tensioned cable stays. Much research has demonstrated that PSCs buckle subcritically when their prestressing levels maximize the critical buckling load of the theoretically perfect arrangement. Erosion of the pre-tensioned cables' effectiveness (e.

Data related to the manufacturing and mechanical performance of 3D-printed metal honeycombs.

The data available in this article include 3D mechanical designs used for the computer-aided fabrication of metal honeycombs produced by additive manufacturing and studied in [1]. In addition, the force-displacement data utilized to evaluate the mechanical performance of the metal used in this study are available via the digital image correlation technique. Further, the surface features obtained using 3D scanning microscopy of the fabricated parts are available as raw files and processed data.

A call to action: Temporal trends of COVID-19 deaths in the South African Muslim community.

Letter by Omar on letter by Jassat et al. (Jassat W, Brey Z, Parker S, et al. A call to action: Temporal trends of COVID-19 deaths in the South African Muslim community.