... of material properties to bone by developing a dynamic design approach. Design/methodology/approach A suitable topology was selected and admissible design space was established. Implants were fabricated by selective laser melting. Material dynamics, including elastic modulus, damping and natural frequency...

... models. Findings Experimental results demonstrate that pre‐compression and pre‐buckling can be used to induce negative stiffness behavior and thereby increase the damping and shift the resonant frequency of an unconstrained beam. Originality/value The results support the usefulness of SLS...