despite the rapid growth of engineering science especially in the modern structural engineering and application of new materials in civil engineering, a significant percentage of world population in different countries are living in adobe buildings made from mud-bricks. in this paper, by performing experimental study on scaled mud-brick walls under monotonic load, in-plane behavior of the walls...

We present in this paper two novel concepts of hybrid metamaterials that combine a core unit cell re-entrant or cross-chiral shape and lateral missing ribs. The first topology is between an anti-tetrachiral rib (cross-chiral) configuration; the second one has variable layout compared to classical square structure. Their in-plane mechanical properties have been investigated from parametric point...