Phase transforming cellular materials (PXCMs) are a new class of materials that can go through large deformation and return to their original configuration. Currently, there are reliable cellular materials that can resist large deformation, for example, honey comb; however, when these materials are compared to PXCMs, they cannot stay in their elastic range. The biggest advantage about PXCMs is that they are not only inexpensive materials, but they are also highly-durable and they absorb and dissipate high amounts of energy. The main concept behind PXCMs is that they contain unit cells that have stable configurations. Each stable configuration of the unit cell corresponds to a phase. The transition between these phases are interpreted as phase-transformation of the cellular material. Our approach to this project is to create a simulation tool that will predict the mechanical behavior of a PXCM

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

• Yunlan Zhang, Chidubem Nuela Enebechi, Kristiaan William Hector, Gavin Carter, Valeria Grillo, ASHLEY MIN, David Restrepo, Nilesh Mankame, Pablo Daniel Zavattieri (2018), "Phase Transforming Cellular Materials Simulator," https://nanohub.org/resources/pxcm. (DOI: 10.4231/D3TB0XX85).

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1. civil engineering
2. computational materials science
3. Jupyter notebooks
4. materials science
5. mechanical properties
6. PXCM
7. tool:pxcm