Boeing
Additive Manufacturing of Metals Lattice Structures for Energy Absorption
Son Q. Luong, mechanical engineering
Jagbir Singh, mechanical engineering
Sameer D. Meshram, mechanical engineering
Samuel Sexton, mechanical engineering
Marwin Tarusna, mechanical engineering
Ramulu Mamidala, Boeing-Pennell Professor of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering
Junlan Wang, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
The team explored and improved designs of additive manufactured metal lattices for applications requiring high energy absorption. They adopted feasible lattice designs, assessed their properties by experiments and modeling, and improved the designs to maximum performance and efficiency.