This work reviews the current state of the art in metallic microlattice structures
manufactured using the additive manufacturing processes of selective laser melting electron
beam melting binder jetting and photopolymer wave guides. The emphasis is on structural
performance (stiffness strength and collapse).The field of additively manufactured metallic
microlattice structures is fast changing and wide ranging and is being driven by developments
in manufacturing processes. This book takes a number of specific structural applications viz.
sandwich beams and panels and energy absorbers and a number of conventional metallic
materials and discusses the use of additive manufactured metallic microlattice structures to
improve and enhance these structural performances. Structural performances considered includes
such non linear effects as plasticity material rupture elastic and plastic instabilities and
impact loading. The specific discussions are put into the context of wider issues such as the
effects of realisation processes the effects of structural scale use of sophisticated
analysis and synthesis methodologies and the application of existing (conventional) structural
theories. In this way the specific discussions are put into the context of the emerging
general fields of Architectured (Architected) Materials and Mechanical Metamaterials.
