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Physics-aware differentiable design of magnetically actuated kirigami for shape morphing
Liwei Wang, Yilong Chang, Shuai Wu +2
Shape morphing that transforms morphologies in response to stimuli is crucial for future multifunctional systems. While kirigami holds great promise in enhancing shape-morphing, ex…
Stiffness Change for Reconfiguration of Inflated Beam Robots
Brian H. Do, Shuai Wu, Ruike Renee Zhao +1
Active control of the shape of soft robots is challenging. Despite having an infinite number of passive degrees of freedom (DOFs), soft robots typically only have a few actively co…
Multiple equilibrium states of a curved-sided hexagram: Part II-Transitions between states
Lu Lu, Jize Dai, Sophie Leanza +2
Curved-sided hexagrams with multiple equilibrium states have great potential in engineering applications such as foldable architectures, deployable aerospace structures, and shape-…
Multiple equilibrium states of a curved-sided hexagram: Part I-Stability of states
Lu Lu, Jize Dai, Sophie Leanza +2
The stability of the multiple equilibrium states of a hexagram ring with six curved sides is investigated. Each of the six segments is a rod having the same length and uniform natu…
Magneto-Mechanical Bilayer Metasurface with Global Area-Preserving Density Tunability for Acoustic Wave Regulation
Jay Sim, Shuai Wu, Jize Dai +1
Metasurfaces have extensive potential in acoustic cloaking, optical scattering, and electromagnetic antenna due to their unprecedented properties and the ability to conform to curv…
On the Elastic Stability of Folded Rings in Circular and Straight States
Sophie Leanza, Ruike Renee Zhao, John W. Hutchinson
Single-loop elastic rings can be folded into multi-loop equilibrium configurations. In this paper, the stability of several such multi-loop states which are either circular or stra…
Liquid Crystal Elastomer-Liquid Metal Composite: Ultrafast, Untethered, and Programmable Actuation by Induction Heating
Victor Maurin, Yilong Chang, Qiji Ze +2
Liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) are a stimuli-responsive material which has been intensively studied for applications including artificial muscles, shape morphing structures, and…