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Energy Absorption and Deformation Behavior of Bionic Lattice Structures with Bidirectional Gradient Distribution

Dongming Li, Jiasen Si, Tongyuan Sun, Long Guo, Bingzhi Chen, Xu Zhang, Jianxin Xu

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