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Programmable Mechanical Metamaterials

2014; American Physical Society; Volume: 113; Issue: 17 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1103/physrevlett.113.175503

ISSN

1092-0145

Autores

Bastiaan Florijn, Corentin Coulais, Martin van Hecke,

Tópico(s)

Adhesion, Friction, and Surface Interactions

Resumo

We create mechanical metamaterials whose response to uniaxial compression can be programmed by lateral confinement, allowing monotonic, nonmonotonic, and hysteretic behavior. These functionalities arise from a broken rotational symmetry which causes highly nonlinear coupling of deformations along the two primary axes of these metamaterials. We introduce a soft mechanism model which captures the programmable mechanics, and outline a general design strategy for confined mechanical metamaterials. Finally, we show how inhomogeneous confinement can be explored to create multistability and giant hysteresis.Received 15 July 2014DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.175503© 2014 American Physical Society

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