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Wallpaper Group-Based Mechanical Metamaterials: Dataset Including Mechanical Responses

Soft Condensed Matter 2025-09-23 v2 Computational Physics

Abstract

Mechanical metamaterials often exhibit pattern transformations through instabilities, enabling applications in, e.g., soft robotics, sound reduction, and biomedicine. These transformations and their resulting mechanical properties are closely tied to the symmetries in these metamaterials' microstructures, which remain under-explored. Designing such materials is challenging due to the unbounded design space, and while machine learning offers promising tools, they require extensive training data. Here, we present a large dataset of 2D microstructures and their macroscopic mechanical responses in the hyperelastic, finite-strain regime, including buckling. The microstructures are generated using a novel method, which covers all 17 wallpaper symmetry groups and employs B\'ezier curves for a rich parametric space. Mechanical responses are obtained through finite element-based computational homogenization. The dataset includes 1,020 distinct geometries, each subjected to 12 loading trajectories, totaling 12,240 trajectories. Our dataset supports the development and benchmarking of surrogate models, facilitates the study of symmetry-property relationships, and enables investigations into symmetry-breaking during pattern transformations, potentially revealing emergent behavior in mechanical metamaterials.

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@article{arxiv.2507.11195,
  title  = {Wallpaper Group-Based Mechanical Metamaterials: Dataset Including Mechanical Responses},
  author = {Fleur Hendriks and Vlado Menkovski and Martin Doškář and Marc G. D. Geers and Kevin Verbeek and Ondřej Rokoš},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.11195},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

25 pages, 13 Figures, data descriptor, dataset available here: https://zenodo.org/records/15849549. Submitted to Nature Scientific Data

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