Compressive characteristics of a wire-woven cellular metal

A new wire-woven cellular metal named WBD (Wire-woven Bulk Diamond) is investigated to overcome previous wire-woven metals. The geometry and mechanical properties of WBD under compression are presented and the benefits, weaknesses, and application potential of WBD are discussed. For a given slenderness ratio of the struts composing the structures, the density and strength of WBD are about twice as high as those of WBK, while the equivalent Youngʹs modulus is 50% higher. Although, with respect to the strength per density, WBDs are somewhat inferior to truss cellular metals, honeycombs, and WBK family, WBDs as a sort of wire-woven cellular metals may play an important role to cover the gap in the relative density between the woven textiles and WBK family. The energy absorption capability of the WBDs is even comparable to truss cellular metals. And also, WBD is expected to show potential for heavy duty application, a core material in a sandwich panel, a heat transfer medium, and so on.