Push, snap, pull, and buckle: A material design framework enabled by cooperating active and geometrically nonlinear passive microstructures

Many active materials have properties that make them challenging to design with or limit their utility, including having combinations of nonlinear, viscous, slow, or small responses. In this work, we show that by designing metamaterial unit cells that have separately active and, specifically geometr...

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Main Authors: Nicolas Herard, Zijun Wang, Raja Annapooranan, Kai Qian, Po-Hsun Chiu, Bradley D. Lawrence, Latha Nataraj, Todd Henry, Shengqiang Cai, Nicholas Boechler
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2023-12-01
Series:Materials & Design
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S026412752300847X