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Dynamic Mechanical Response of Spinodal Architectures Across Length and Time Scales

Vatsa Gandhi , Rishi Kommalapati , Carlos M. Portela , Vikram Deshpande
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keywords spinodal architecturesdynamic responsestrain rate sensitivityinertia effectslength scalearchitected materialsfinite element analysismacroscale versus microscale
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The pith

Macroscale spinodal architected materials exhibit nearly tenfold strength increase at high strain rates due to inertia, unlike microscale specimens.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper investigates spinodal architected materials to understand how their dynamic strength depends on specimen size and loading speed. Experiments across six orders of magnitude in strain rate show that macroscale samples strengthen dramatically more than microscale ones at the highest rates. Finite element calculations trace this gap to a switch in dominant physics: microscale response stays tied to the base material's rate sensitivity while macroscale response becomes controlled by inertia. The calculations also produce regime maps showing that the switch occurs at a critical combination of length scale and rate, with a fluid-like dependence on structural size.

Core claim

Experiments on spinodal architected specimens with 100 μm and 30 mm length scales across strain rates from 10^{-3} s^{-1} to 10^4 s^{-1} demonstrate that macroscale specimens exhibit a nearly tenfold increase in strength at high rates. Finite element calculations link the increase to a transition from a response governed by constituent material strain-rate sensitivity to inertia-dominated behavior, a transition absent in microscale specimens at the rates tested. Extensive calculations map the governing parameters and establish that the transition depends on structural length scale in a manner analogous to fluids.

What carries the argument

Spinodal architected morphology that permits controlled scaling between micro and macro lengths, together with finite element models that separate material rate sensitivity from inertial contributions and produce regime maps.

If this is right

  • Laboratory screening of architected materials at micro scales may miss inertia-driven strengthening that appears at engineering scales.
  • Regime maps allow selection of spinodal topologies and sizes for target strain rates.
  • Dynamic properties extracted from small specimens require length-scale corrections before use in macroscale applications.
  • The fluid analogy implies that dimensionless groups combining length, density, and rate can delineate behavioral regimes for other architectures.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Similar length-scale thresholds may govern dynamic response in other open-cell or stochastic architectures, allowing unified scaling rules.
  • Impact-resistant structures could exploit the macroscale inertia regime for higher energy absorption without changing base material.
  • High-rate testing protocols might incorporate specimen size as a variable to isolate the inertia transition directly.

Load-bearing premise

The difference in strength scaling between micro and macro specimens arises purely from the shift to inertia dominance rather than from manufacturing defects, boundary conditions, or unaccounted rate effects in the base material.

What would settle it

A controlled macroscale experiment in which inertial contributions are deliberately minimized yet the tenfold strength increase still appears, or an experiment in which inertial effects are present yet the increase fails to appear.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.02031 by Carlos M. Portela, Rishi Kommalapati, Vatsa Gandhi, Vikram Deshpande.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: (a) Rendered image of the cubic specimen of side length L0, with insets indicating the relative shell thickness (h), normalized Gaussian-curvature distributions (Kˆ ), and the homogenized elastic surface of this represen￾tative volume element, which evidences highly anisotropic stiffness. (b) Depiction of the macro- (top) and micro-scale (bottom) fabrication routes for the spinodal architected specimens, w… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: (a) Characterization tools used for the microscale and macroscale compression measurements, together spanning a range of strain rates from 10-3 s -1 to 104 s -1. (b) Specifics of the nanomechanical setup for microscale measurements (top) and the direct impact setup for macroscale measurements(bottom). 6 view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: The compressive nominal stress σn versus strain εn responses of the constituent polymers used to man￾ufacture the (a) micro and (b) macroscale spinodal architected specimens. Summary of the rate dependence of the effective stiffness E and effective yield strength σY (defined in the insets) as a function of strain rate ˙εn for the constituent materials used to manufacture the (c) micro and (d) macroscale sp… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: A comparison between the deformation modes of the (a) microscale and (b) macroscale spinodal architected specimens for three imposed strain rates spanning five orders of magnitude. The corresponding measured stress versus strain responses are included and key stages of deformation are marked corresponding to the images. 3.3 Compressive response of the spinodal specimens Compression experiments over the sam… view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: The back face stress σB versus strain εn responses of the (a) micro and (b) macroscale spinodal architected specimens. Summary of the rate dependence peak strength σp as a function of strain rate ˙εn for the (c) micro and (d) macroscale spinodal architected specimens. The peak strength is normalized by its corresponding quasi-static value σp0 at ˙εn = 10−3 s −1 . Corresponding FE predictions are also inclu… view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: FE calculations to evaluate the interplay of constituent material rate sensitivity, inertia and specimen length scale in setting the response of the architected specimens. Four sets of calculations are reported. Case I: reference case of the macroscale specimen, Case II: Effect of length scale, Case III: Effect of isolating constituent material rate sensitivity, and Case IV: Effect of isolating inertia. 12 view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: (a) Map with contours of the normalized back face stresses σB/σ0 of the ¯ρ = 0.3 architected specimens. The map has axes ρv2 0/σ0 and v0/(H0ε˙0) to parameterize the inertial and viscous forces, respectively. (b) Depiction of the regimes in the map shown in (a), namely: (A) constituent-material strain-rate sensitivity governed response, (B) inertia-governed response and (C) inertia plus dispersion-governed … view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: Predictions of the spatial distributions of the average velocity ¯v at a given cross-sectional location z in the undeformed configuration for (a) case (B) in Fig. 7b and (b) case (C) in Fig. 7b. The velocity ¯v is normalized by the imposed deformation velocity v0 and z is defined in the inset of (a). 17 view at source ↗
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High-throughput characterization of architected materials across a wide range of length scales enables rapid screening of topologies for engineering applications. Scaled-down specimens manufactured and evaluated in laboratory environments enable this iteration, but application scenarios may involve differing length scales and loading conditions that complicate direct comparisons. Here, we use a spinodal architected morphology to determine the interplay among the constituent material's strain-rate sensitivity, the topological length scale, and the imposed deformation rates. We report characterization spanning strain rates from $10^{-3}$ s$^{-1}$ to $10^{4}$ s$^{-1}$ on spinodal architected specimens with length scales of 100 $\mu$m (microscale) and 30 mm (macroscale). The experiments show that while microscale specimens exhibit moderate increase in strength at high strain rates, macroscale specimens exhibit a nearly tenfold increase in strength at equivalent strain rates. Finite element calculations reveal that this increase is linked to a transition from a response governed by constituent material strain-rate sensitivity to inertia-dominated behavior in macroscale specimens, a transition not observed in microscale specimens at the strain rates investigated here. Using extensive finite element calculations, we develop maps to establish the parameters governing the regimes of behavior, illustrating that the transition from behavior governed by constituent material rate sensitivity to inertia-dominated behavior has analogies to fluids in that it depends on a structural length scale. Our findings provide insights into the physical parameters that govern responses across length and time scales, towards the development and design of new laboratory experiments that extract relevant dynamic properties for structural applications.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript examines the dynamic mechanical response of spinodal architected materials at microscale (100 μm) and macroscale (30 mm) length scales across strain rates from 10^{-3} s^{-1} to 10^4 s^{-1}. Experiments show moderate strength increases in microscale specimens at high rates but a nearly tenfold increase in macroscale specimens. Finite element simulations attribute the macroscale jump to a transition from material strain-rate sensitivity to inertia-dominated behavior (absent in microscale at the tested rates) and develop regime maps governed by structural length scale, drawing analogies to fluid inertia.

Significance. If the central claim holds, the work is significant for revealing length-scale-dependent transitions in dynamic response of architected materials, with practical value for high-rate applications. The combination of multi-scale experiments and extensive FE calculations to produce regime maps is a strength, offering concrete guidance on when inertia overtakes material rate sensitivity. The analogy to fluids and the falsifiable nature of the maps add to the contribution.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: the reported 'nearly tenfold increase' in macroscale strength at high strain rates is presented without error bars, standard deviations, number of replicates, or raw data, which makes it difficult to assess the robustness and statistical significance of this load-bearing quantitative result.
  2. [Finite element calculations] Finite element calculations and experimental sections: the attribution of the macroscale strength increase solely to inertia-dominated behavior requires that the constituent material's strain-rate sensitivity is identical across scales. Different manufacturing routes for 100 μm vs. 30 mm specimens may introduce variations in porosity, residual stresses, or effective properties that alter rate dependence independently of inertia; the manuscript does not report direct validation (e.g., bulk constituent tests at both scales or sensitivity analysis in the FE models) to rule out this confound.
minor comments (2)
  1. The abstract and methods would benefit from explicit statements on the number of experimental replicates and any statistical analysis performed on the strength data.
  2. Clarify in the regime-map discussion how the structural length scale is quantitatively defined and whether the maps include any uncertainty bounds from the FE parameter sweeps.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

2 responses · 0 unresolved

We thank the referee for their thoughtful and constructive comments, which help clarify key aspects of our work on the dynamic response of spinodal architectures. We address each major comment below and indicate the revisions planned for the next manuscript version.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: the reported 'nearly tenfold increase' in macroscale strength at high strain rates is presented without error bars, standard deviations, number of replicates, or raw data, which makes it difficult to assess the robustness and statistical significance of this load-bearing quantitative result.

    Authors: We agree that statistical details are necessary to support the quantitative claim in the abstract. In the revised manuscript, we will add error bars, standard deviations, and the number of replicates to the relevant experimental figures and main-text discussion of the macroscale results. To accommodate abstract length limits, we will revise the phrasing to 'a nearly tenfold increase in strength (with statistical details provided in the main text)' while preserving the original meaning. This change improves transparency and allows readers to evaluate robustness without requiring raw data in the abstract itself. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Finite element calculations] Finite element calculations and experimental sections: the attribution of the macroscale strength increase solely to inertia-dominated behavior requires that the constituent material's strain-rate sensitivity is identical across scales. Different manufacturing routes for 100 μm vs. 30 mm specimens may introduce variations in porosity, residual stresses, or effective properties that alter rate dependence independently of inertia; the manuscript does not report direct validation (e.g., bulk constituent tests at both scales or sensitivity analysis in the FE models) to rule out this confound.

    Authors: We acknowledge the validity of this concern about potential manufacturing-induced variations in material response. The original models apply a single constitutive description calibrated to the base material for both length scales. To address the referee's point directly, the revised manuscript will include a new sensitivity analysis within the finite element section. This analysis will systematically vary the strain-rate sensitivity parameters over a range consistent with possible manufacturing differences and show that such variations produce only modest strength changes, insufficient to explain the observed tenfold macroscale increase. The inertia-dominated regime remains the dominant mechanism at the macroscale. We will also add a brief discussion of the two fabrication routes and any available measurements of porosity or other effective properties to further support the assumption of comparable base-material behavior. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity; claims rest on independent experiments and FE simulations

full rationale

The paper's derivation chain consists of direct experimental measurements of strength at micro (100 μm) and macro (30 mm) scales across strain rates, followed by finite element calculations that interpret the macroscale ~10x strength jump as a shift to inertia-dominated response (absent at microscale). No step reduces by construction to a fitted input renamed as prediction, self-definition, or load-bearing self-citation. The material constitutive response is characterized separately and applied uniformly; the regime maps are generated from extensive FE runs rather than ansatz smuggling or renaming known patterns. The skeptic concern about scale-dependent material variations is a potential correctness issue, not a circularity reduction. This matches the reader's assessment of score 2.0.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

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Abstract provides insufficient detail to enumerate specific free parameters or axioms; standard continuum mechanics assumptions are implicit but not itemized.

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