Horseshoe-shaped microstructures possessed excellent characteristics such as high stretchability, high air permeability, and topological programmability, and were widely used in important fields including biomedical devices, flexible displays, and tissue engineering. Based on the BCT2000 test principle and GB/T 24218.5-2016 steel ball bursting test method, a test method for out-of-plane deformations of horseshoe-shaped microstructures was established herein, and the out-of-plane deformation behaviors of three types of bionic horseshoe-shaped microstructures (triangular, Kagome, and honeycomb-shaped) were systematically studied. The bursting load-displacement curves of the three types of horseshoe-shaped microstructures were studied through numerical simulations and experimental analyses, the stress distribution and the out-of-plane deformations of the structures were analyzed, and triangular linear structures were used as the control group. Flexible-elastic performance evaluation criteria were established from four aspects, and the effects of four factors on flexible-elastic performances were initially analyzed. Triangular microstructures exhibit the most excellent comprehensive flexible-elastic performance and have obvious flexible-elastic advantages compared with traditional linear structures. Specifically, their maximum out-of-plane displacements are increased by 88.9%, the low-load bearing displacements are increased by 428.1%, the out-of-plane stiffness is reduced by 59.3%, and the energy absorption capacity is increased by 31.5%.
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