Mechanics, Biomimetics, and 3D Printing Research Lab

Publications

Refereed Journal Papers

♦ J58 Ammar Batwa, Juha Song, and Yaning Li*(2025), In-Plane Mechanical Properties of Polymer Laminae 3D-Printed via Multi-Material Jetting, Results in Engineering Vol.28:108303 (IF 7.9). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rineng.2025.108303

♦ J57 Richard Nash and Yaning Li*(2026), Numerical Analysis of Sutural Tessellations under Dynamic Indentation, Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials (JMBBM) Vol.174:107270 (IF 3.5). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmbbm.2025.107270

♦ J56 Richard Nash, Yunzheng Yang, and Yaning Li*(2025), Adaptive Mechanical Metamaterials with On-Demand Binary Local Modulus for Embodied Intelligence, Advanced Science Vol.12(40):e09675 (IF 14.1). https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202509675

♦ J55 Yunyao Jiang, Siyao Liu, and Yaning Li*(2025), Programmable Reconfiguration of Hybrid 4D Chiral Metamaterials via Mechanical and Thermal Stimuli,Advanced Engineering Materials Vol.27:e2501419 (IF 3.3).https://doi.org/10.1002/adem.202501419

♦ J54 Shujing Dong, Ammar Batwa, and Yaning Li*(2025), Tuning Local Anisotropy for Macroscopic Auxeticity: Design Auxetic Meta-Lamina via Systematic Finite Element Simulations and Machine Learning Approach, Materials and Design, Vol.257 (IF 7.9). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matdes.2025.114426

♦ J53 Siyao Liu and Yaning Li*(2025), Design and Characterization of 3D Sandwich Chiral-Shear Mechanical Metamaterials for Thermal Stress Reduction, (revision submitted).

♦ J52 Richard J. Nash and Yaning Li*(2025), Characterization of rate-dependent behaviors of 3D printed material under shear impact, International Journal of Impact Engineering, Vol.202: 105314 (IF 5.1). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijimpeng.2025.105314

♦ J51 Tiantian Li and Yaning Li*(2024), Bio-inspired space-filling fractal metamaterial, Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, Vol.160: 106791 (IF 3.3). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmbbm.2024.106791

♦ J50 Richard Nash and Yaning Li*(2024), On-Demand Auxeticity and Co-existing Pre-tension Induced Compression Stage in a Sandwich Design with Kinematically Constrained 3D Suture Tiles, Nature Communications, Vol.15: 6994 (IF 16.6). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-50664-8

♦ J49 Shujing Dong, Richard J. Nash, and Yaning Li*(2024), Mechanical response of 3D printed irregular sutural tessellations with Voronoi tile patterns under tension, Engineering Fracture Mechanics, Vol.307: 110262 (IF 5.4). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engfracmech.2024.110262

♦ J48 Richard J Nash and Yaning Li*(2024), Direction-dependent bending resistance of 3D printed bio-inspired composites with asymmetric 3D articulated tiles, Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, Vol.19: 056006 (IF 3.1). https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-3190/ad5ee7

♦ J47 Yanzhang Xu, Richard Nash, Ammar Batwa, and Yaning Li*(2024), Auxetic Two-Phase Chevron Mechanical Metamaterial, Advanced Engineering Materials, Vol.2400691 (IF 3.6). https://doi.org/10.1002/adem.202400691

♦ J46 Tiantian Li and Yaning Li*(2024), 3D Tiled Auxetic Metamaterial: A New Family of Mechanical Metamaterial with High Resilience and Mechanical Hysteresis (Frontispiece), Advanced Materials (IF 29.4). https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202309604

♦ J45 Tiantian Li and Yaning Li*(2023), Mechanical Behaviors of Three-Dimensional Chiral Mechanical Metamaterials, Composite Part B, Vol.270: 111141 (IF 13.1). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compositesb.2023.111141

♦ J44 Siyao Liu and Yaning Li*(2023), Thermal Expansion of Hybrid Chiral Mechanical Metamaterial with Patterned Bi‐Strips, Advanced Engineering Materials, Vol.25: 2300478 (Back cover). https://doi.org/10.1002/adem.202300478

♦ J43 Siyao Liu and Yaning Li*(2023), Mechanical Properties of Cochiral and Contrachiral Mechanical Metamaterials Under Different Temperatures, Advanced Engineering Materials, Vol.25: 2201527 (Front cover). https://doi.org/10.1002/adem.202370023

♦ J42 Tiantian Li and Yaning Li*(2022), Effects of handedness ratio and handedness distribution on the mechanical properties of Bi-chiral mechanical metamaterials, International Journal of Solids and Structures, Vol.254: 111947. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2022.111947

♦ J41 Tiantian Li and Yaning Li*(2022), Prediction of the Anisotropy of Chiral Mechanical Metamaterials via Micropolar Modeling, Journal of Applied Mechanics, Vol.89: 101006. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4055349

♦ J40 Richard Nash and Yaning Li*(2021), Experimental and Numerical Analysis of 3D Printed Suture Joints under Shearing Load, Engineering Fracture Mechanics, Vol.253: 107912. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engfracmech.2021.107912

♦ J39 K. R. Phillips, C. T. Zhang, T. Yang, T. Kay, C. Gao, S. Brandt, L. Liu, H. Yang, Y. Li, J. Aizenberg, L. Li*(2020), Fabrication of photonic microbricks via crack engineering of colloidal crystals, Advanced Functional Materials.

♦ J38 Lei Liu and Yaning Li* (2019), A Visco-Hyperelastic Softening Model for Predicting the Strain Rate Effects of 3D-Printed Wavy Interfacial Layer, Mechanics of Materials. Vol. 137,103128.

♦ J37 Benjamin P.J. Hasseldine, Chao Gao, and Yaning Li* (2019), Prediction of the Anisotropic Damage Evolution of Dry Common Millet (Panicum miliaceum) Seed under Quasi-Static Blunt Indentation, Engineering Fracture Mechanics Vol.214, 112-122.

♦ J36 Shengguang Jin, Yannis Korkolis, and Yaning Li* (2019), Shear resistance of an auxetic chiral mechanical metamaterial, International Journal of Solids and Structures 174-175, 28-37.

♦ J35 Hassan Bahaloo and Yaning Li*(2019), Micropolar Modeling of Auxetic Chiral Lattices with Tunable Internal Rotation, Journal of Applied Mechanics 86(4), 041002.

♦ J34 Yunyao Jiang, Bodhi Rudra, Jongmin Shim*, and Yaning Li*(2019), Limiting Strain for Auxeticity under Large Compressive Deformation:Chiral vs. Re-entrant Cellular Solids, International Journal of Solids and Structures Vol.162(1), 87-95.

♦ J33 Houwen Matthew Pan, Shengyang Chen, Tae-Sik Jang, Win Tun Han, Hyun-do Jung, Yaning Li and Juha Song*(2019), Plant seed-inspired cell protection, dormancy, and growth for large-scale biofabrication, Biofabrication 11 025008.

♦ J32 Chao Gao and Yaning Li*(2019), Mechanical Model of Bio-Inspired Composites with Sutural Tessellation, Journal of Mechanics and Physics of Solids Vol.122, 190-204.

♦ J31 Mona Monsef Khoshhesab and Yaning Li*(2018), Mechanical Behavior of 3D Printed Biomimetic Koch Fractal Contact and Interlocking, Extreme Mechanics Letters Vol.24, 58-65.

♦ J30 Chao Gao, Slava Slesarenko, Mary Boyce*, Stephan Rudykh* and Yaning Li*(2018), Instability-Induced Pattern Transformation in Soft Metamaterial with Hexagonal Networks for Tunable Wave Propagation, Scientific Reports 8:11834.

♦ J29 Chao Gao, Benjamin Hasseldine, Ling Li, James Weaver and Yaning Li*(2018), Amplifying Strength, Toughness, and Auxeticity via Wavy Sutural Tessellation in Plant Seedcoats, Advanced Materials (Inside Back Cover), 1800579.

♦ J28 Lei Liu and Yaning Li*(2018), Failure Mechanism Transition of 3D-Printed Biomimetic Sutures, Engineering Fracture Mechanics, Vol.199, 372-379.

♦ J27 Lei Liu and Yaning Li*(2018), Predicting the Mixed-Mode I/II Spatial Damage Propagation along 3D-Printed Soft Interfacial Layer via a Hyperelastic Softening Model, Journal of Mechanics and Physics of Solids, Vol.116, 17-32.

♦ J26 Yunyao Jiang and Yaning Li*(2018), 3D Printed Auxetic Mechanical Metamaterial with Chiral Cells and Reentrant Cores, Scientific Reports, 8:2397.

♦ J25 Kwang-hee Cheon, Chao Gao, Min-Ho Kang, Hyun-Do Jung, Taesik Jang, Hyoun-Ee Kim, Yaning Li*, Juha Song* (2018), A crack-free anti-corrosive coating strategy for magnesium implants under deformation, Corrosion Science, 132, 116-124.

♦ J24 Kateryna Miroshnichenko, Lei Liu, Igor Tsukrov*, and Yaning Li* (2018), Mechanical model of suture joints with fibrous connective layer, Journal of Mechanics and Physics of Solids, Vol.111, 490-502.

♦ J23 Yunyao Jiang and Yaning Li* (2017), Novel 3D-printed hybrid auxetic mechanical metamaterial with chirality-induced sequential cell opening mechanisms, Advanced Engineering Materials (Front Cover), Vol.20(2), 1700744.

♦ J22 Bodhi Rudra, Yunyao Jiang, Yaning Li and Jongmin Shim* (2017), A class of diatomic 2-D soft granular crystals undergoing pattern transformations, Soft Matter, 13, 5824-5831.

♦ J21 Lei Liu, Yunyao Jiang, Mary C. Boyce, Christine Ortiz, Jeffery Baur, Juha Song, and Yaning Li* (2017), The effects of morphological irregularity on the mechanical behavior of interdigitated biological sutures, Journal of Biomechanics, 58, 71-78.

♦ J20 Benjamin P.J. Hasseldine, Chao Gao, Joseph M. Collins, Hyun-Do Jungc, Tae-Sik Jang, Juha Song* and Yaning Li* (2017), Mechanical response of common millet (Panicum miliaceum) seeds under quasi-static compression: experiments and modeling, Journal of Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials 73C, 102-113.

♦ J19 Chao Gao and Yaning Li* (2017), Tuning the wrinkling patterns of an interfacial/coating layer via a regulation interphase, International Journal of Solids and Structures 104-105, 92-102.

♦ J18 Yunyao Jiang and Yaning Li* (2016), 3D printed chiral cellular solids with amplified auxetic effects due to elevated internal rotation, Advanced Engineering Materials (Back Cover),19(2), 1600609.

♦ J17 Swati Varshney, Juha Song, Yaning Li, Mary C. Boyce, and Christine Ortiz* (2015), “Morphometric Structural Diversity of a Natural Armor Assembly Investigated by 2D Continuum Strain Analysis,” Journal of Structural Biology, 192 (3), 487–499.

♦ J16 Erica Lin, Yaning Li, Christine Ortiz and Mary C. Boyce* (2014), Mechanics of deformation and failure mechanisms of general trapezoidal interfaces, Journal of Mechanics and Physics of Solids 73, 166-182.

♦ J15 Erica Lin, Yaning Li, James C. Weaver, Christine Ortiz and Mary C. Boyce* (2014), Tunability and enhancement of mechanical behavior with additively manufactured bio-inspired hierarchical suture interfaces, Journal of Materials Research 9(17), 1867-1875.

♦ J14 Yaning Li, Narges Kaynia, Stephan Rudykh, and Mary C. Boyce* (2013), Wrinkling of interfacial layers in stratified composites, Advanced Engineering Materials 15(10), 921-926.

♦ J13 Yaning Li, Christine Ortiz and Mary C. Boyce* (2013), A generalized mechanical model for suture interfaces of arbitrary geometry, Journal of Mechanics and Physics of Solids 61(4), 1144-1167.

♦ J12 Yaning Li, Christine Ortiz and Mary C. Boyce* (2012), A bio-inspired mechanical, deterministic fractal model for hierarchical suture joints, Physical Review E 85, 031901.

♦ J11 Yaning Li, Christine Ortiz and Mary C. Boyce* (2011), Stiffness and strength of suture joints in nature, Physical Review E 84, 062904.

♦ J10 Yaning Li, Anthony M. Waas and Ellen M. Arruda* (2011), A closed-form, hierarchical, multi-interphase model for composites -- derivation, verification and application to nanocomposites, Journal of Mechanics and Physics of Solids 59, 43-63.

♦ J09 Yaning Li*, Anthony M. Waas and Ellen M. Arruda (2011), The effect of interphase and strain gradients on the elasticity of LBL polymer/clay nanocomposites, International Journal of Solids and Structures 48, 1044-1053.

♦ J08 Yaning Li*, Tomasz Wierzbicki, Michael A. Sutton, Junhui Yan, Xiaomin Deng (2010), Mixed mode stable tearing of thin sheet Al 6061-T6 specimens: experimental measurements and finite element simulations using a modified Mohr-Coulomb fracture criterion, International Journal of Fracture 168(1), 53-71.

♦ J07 Yaning Li and Tomasz Wierzbicki* (2010), Prediction of plane strain fracture of AHSS sheets and post-failure softening, International Journal of Solids and Structures 47, 2316-2327.

♦ J06 Yaning Li*, Meng Luo, Joerg Gelarch and Tomasz Wierzbicki (2010), Prediction of shear-induced fracture in sheet metal forming, Journal of Material Processing Technology 210(14), 1858-1869.

♦ J05 Allison Beese*, Meng Luo, Yaning Li, Yuanli Bai and Tomasz Wierzbicki (2009), Partially coupled anisotropic model for sheets, Engineering Fracture Mechanics 77(7), 1128-1152.

♦ J04 Yaning Li and Dale G. Karr* (2009), Prediction of ductile fracture in tension by bifurcation, localization, and imperfection analysis, International Journal of Plasticity 25(6), 1128-1153.

♦ J03 Zhiqiang Hu*, Yongning Gu, Zhen Gao and Yaning Li (2005), Fast evaluation of ship-bridge collision force based on nonlinear numerical simulation, Journal of Marine Science and Application 4(1), 8-14.

♦ J02 Yaning Li, Yunlong Jin, Zhiqiang Hu and Yongning Gu* (2004), The collision of ship-bridge pier and its fending calculation, Journal of Shanghai Scientific Research Institute of Shipping 27(1), 9-13.

♦ J01 Yaning Li, Zhen Gao and Yongning Gu* (2002), Benchmark study of the tensile coupon test and model test of ship grounding, Ship Engineering 6, 13-17.

Refereed Conference Papers

♦ C27 Siyao Liu and Yaning Li* (2025), Numerical Simulations on Tunable Mechanical and Thermal Responses of Square Lattices via Patterned Imperfections, ASME/IMECE Proceeding. Paper number 166095 (two columns, 9 pages, under review).

♦ C26 Lin Gu and Yaning Li* (2025), Designing Mechanical Metamaterials with Phase Changing Inclusions, ASME/IMECE Proceeding. Paper number 165721 (two columns, 8 pages, under review).

♦ C25 Ammar Batwa and Yaning Li* (2025), Prediction of Poisson’s Ratio of Fiber-Matrix Composites from Classic Laminate Theory and Finite Element Simulations, ASME/IMECE Proceeding. Paper number 166515 (two columns, 6 pages, under review).

♦ C24 Yunzheng Yang and Yaning Li* (2025), Engineering Poisson’s Ratio in Periodic Two-Phase Mechanical Metamaterials via A Deep Learning Framework, ASME/IMECE Proceeding. Paper number 166246 (two columns, 6 pages, under review).

♦ C23 Yunzheng Yang and Yaning Li* (2025), Continuum-Level Finite Element Modeling on Bi-modulus Adaptive Metamaterial Designs, ASME/IMECE Proceeding. Paper number 166249 (two columns, 6 pages, under review).

♦ C22 Harisheswara Reddy Eargamreddy, Yunzheng Yang, Siyao Liu, Sinan Muftu, Kai-Tak Wan, and Yaning Li* (2025), The Mechanical Responses of Pre-Stressed Meta-Cells, ASME/IMECE Proceeding. Paper number 166449 (two columns, 9 pages, under review).

♦ C21 Ammar Batwa, Yunzheng Yang, Yaning Li*, Mohammad Daud, and Jongmin Shim (2025), Dynamic Responses of 3-D Printed Polymeric Materials Under a Wide Range of Strain Rates, ASME/IMECE Proceeding. Paper number 165137 (two columns, 7 pages, under review).

♦ C20 Mona Monsef Khoshhesab and Yaning Li* (2017), Mechanics of wavy network with diamond-shaped inclusions, ASME/IMECE Proceeding. Paper number 71845 (two columns, 7pages).

♦ C19 Mona Monsef Khoshhesab and Yaning Li* (2017), Mechanical modeling of fractal interlocking, ASME/IMECE Proceeding. Paper number 71844 (two columns, 7pages).

♦ C18 Chao Gao and Yaning Li*, Mechanical Behavior of Bio-Inspired Composites with Sutural Tessellation (2017), American Society of Composites (ASC) Technical Conference (11pages).

♦ C17 Lei Liu and Yaning Li*, Mixed mode I/II damage initiation and evolution in 3D printed soft interfacial layer (2017), American Society of Composites (ASC) Technical Conference (10 pages).

♦ C16 Richard Nash, Timothy Pruyn, Heather Chaput, and Yaning Li* (2017), Mechanical behavior of Bio-inspired wavy adhesive bonding under shear. ASME/IMECE Proceeding. Paper number 71791 (two columns, 7pages).

♦ C15 Kateryna Miroshnichenko, Lei Liu, Igor Tsukrov*, and Yaning Li* (2017), Mechanical model of biological sutures with fibrous joints, 21st International Conference on Composite Materials (ICCM-21) (8 pages).

♦ C14 Benjamin P.J. Hasseldine, Chao Gao, and Yaning Li* (2017), Damage initiation and evolution of Panicum Miliaceum seeds under compression. ASME/IMECE Proceeding. Paper number 71826 (two columns, 7pages).

♦ C13 Yunyao Jiang and Yaning Li*, (2016) Optimal sinusoidal cellular structures for energy absorption, ASME/IMECE Proceeding. Paper number 66824. (Haythornthwaite Student Travel/Best Paper Award).

♦ C12 Mona Monsef Khoshhesab and Yaning Li*, (2016) The strength of dissimilar fractal joints, ASME/IMECE Proceeding. Paper number 66830.

♦ C11 Yunyao Jiang and Yaning Li*, (2016) Auxetic effects induced by re-entrant angle and chirality with large deformation. Proceeding of the 24th International Conference of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ICTAM).

♦ C10 Yunyao Jiang and Yaning Li*, (2016) The deformation mechanisms of chiral structures. Proceeding of the 24th International Conference of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ICTAM).

♦ C09 Yaning Li, Narges Kaynia, Mary C. Boyce*, (2012) Micromechanics governing the undulation pattern of inter-cellular boundaries of plant epidermis cells, Proceeding of the 23rd International Conference of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics.

♦ C08 Yaning Li, Anthony M. Waas* and Ellen M. Arruda (2010), Strain gradient modification of the Mori-Tanaka model to predict the elastic properties of the layer by layer (LBL) polymer/clay nanocomposites (AIAA 2010-2813), Proceeding of the 51st AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials Conference. (8 pages).

♦ C07 Meng Luo, Yaning Li, Joerg Gelarch and Tomasz Wierzbicki* (2010), Prediction of shear-induced crack initiation in AHSS deep drawing operation with a phenomenological fracture model, Proceeding of the 10th International Conference on Numerical Methods in Industrial Forming Process (NUMIFORM), (1252), 464-472. (10 pages).

♦ C06 Yaning Li* and Tomasz Wierzbicki (2009), Mesh-size study of ductile fracture by non-local plasticity model, Proceedings of SEM Annual Conference and Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, Paper No. 387. (10 pages).

♦ C05 Yaning Li, Anthony M. Waas and Ellen M. Arruda* (2008), A non-local visco-plastic model with strain gradient effects and interphase effects for simulating the stiffness and yield strength of a class of polymer nanocomposites, ASME/IMECE Proceeding, Vol.13, Page 1119-1126.

♦ C04 Yaning Li, Anthony M. Waas and Ellen M. Arruda* (2008), A particle size-shape-dependent three-phase two-step Mori-Tanaka method for studying the interphase of polymer/clay nanocomposites, ASME/IMECE Proceeding, Vol.13, Page 225-232.

♦ C03 Yaning Li, Amit K. Kaushik, Anthony M. Waas (2008), Paul Podsiadlo, Nicholas A. Kotov and Ellen M. Arruda*, Study of enhancement mechanism and synergistic effects of polymer/clay nanocomposite, Paper 43, Proceeding of the 6th International Conference on Mechanics of Time-Dependent Materials (MTDM).(4 pages).

♦ C02 Yaning Li, Dale G. Karr and George Wang (2007), Mesh Size Effects in Simulating Ductile Fracture of Metals, American Bureau of Shipping Technical Journal Vol.1, 815-822, 2007. 2007, Page 247-254.

♦ C01 Yaning Li, Yaling Wang, Guoping Miao, Yingzhong Liu* (2000), Three Dimensional Numerical Simulation of Fluid Sloshing in Tanks, Proceeding of the 1st Conference on Ship and Ocean Engineering in China, Page 316-322, 2000.