--- title: 3D-printed metamaterials that stretch and fail by design description: MIT researchers developed a computational design framework for creating soft, deformable metamaterials using 3D-printed woven structures. The framework uses... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/3d-printed-metamaterials-that-stretch-and-fail-by-design-bd7jey8zl twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: 3D-printed metamaterials that stretch and fail by design | daily.dev og:description: MIT researchers developed a computational design framework for creating soft, deformable metamaterials using 3D-printed woven structures. The framework uses... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/3d-printed-metamaterials-that-stretch-and-fail-by-design-bd7jey8zl og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/Bd7jey8zL.png og:image:alt: 3D-printed metamaterials that stretch and fail by design og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # 3D-printed metamaterials that stretch and fail by design **[MIT News](https://daily.dev/sources/mit)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary MIT researchers developed a computational design framework for creating soft, deformable metamaterials using 3D-printed woven structures. The framework uses algorithms to generate complex fiber patterns that can be tailored to stretch, deform, and fail in predictable ways. Applications include soft robotics, biomedical devices, wearable sensors, and functional textiles. The team released open-source code that allows users to design custom materials, simulate their behavior including self-contact and entanglement, and generate files for 3D printing. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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