Contributing research data to the doctoral thesis "on topological mechanics of 3d chiral metamaterials"

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This repository contains additional research data contributing to the doctoral thesis "On topological mechanics of 3D chiral metamaterials" by J. Köpfler. Further data of related publications (DOIs: 10.1002/adma.202103205 and 10.1103/PhysRevApplied.11.034059) can be found in the corresponding repository (DOI: 10.5445/IR/1000135066).

Folder structure:

The data in each folder is sorted in subfolders corresponding to the chapters of the doctoral thesis

• contains the 3D printing files for the microstructure casts (double-sided support mirror structure) and a file that was used to design the 3D microcast

• contains the files for the Matlab scripts and COMSOL files for the FEM-calculations

• contains the image series that was acquired for the evaluation of the resonance of the double-sided support mirror structure
• contains the scripts to extract displacement data and generate the resonance plots etc.

Experimental data treatment:

Image cross-correlation was performed using the "grid_generator_" functions on the digital images, followed by the "automate_images_" functions. The resulting datasets "validx.dat" and "validy.dat" for the tracked x- and y-displacements are loaded, processed, collected, and plotted via the specific "combine_parts_" functions in the individual measurement folders.