Designing allostery-inspired response in mechanical networks

Recent advances in designing metamaterials have demonstrated that global mechanical properties of disordered spring networks can be tuned by selectively modifying only a small subset of bonds. Here, using a computationally efficient approach, we extend this idea to tune more general properties of ne...

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Main Authors: Rocks, Jason W., Pashine, Nidhi, Bischofberger, Irmgard, Goodrich, Carl P., Liu, Andrea J., Nagel, Sidney R.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering
Format: Article
Published: National Academy of Sciences (U.S.) 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/112223