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Interdisciplinary Workshop on Mechanical Intelligence: Summary Report
Victoria A. Webster-Wood, Nicholas Gravish, Amir Alavi +37
This report provides a summary of the outcomes of the Interdisciplinary Workshop on Mechanical Intelligence held in 2024. Mechanical Intelligence (MI) represents the phenomenon tha…
Phonon controlled mechanical memory via pinning and depinning of transition waves
Samuele Ferracin, Dengge Jin, Vincent Tournat +1
Multistable mechanical metamaterials enable programmable transitions between discrete stable states through propagating kink transition waves (TWs). Yet controlling these kinks typ…
Effect of discreteness on domain wall stability in a plate coupled to a foundation of bistable elements
Dengge Jin, Samuele Ferracin, Vincent Tournat +1
Surfaces and structures capable of multiple stable configurations have attracted growing interest for on-demand shape morphing. In this work, we consider an elastic compliant plate…
Tether-Based Architecture for Solar-Powered Orbital AI Data Centers
Igor Bargatin, Dengge Jin, Zaini Alansari +1
We propose a tether-based structural architecture for orbital data centers operating in Dawn-Dusk Sun-Synchronous (DDSS) orbits under continuous sunlight. These space-based data ce…
Quantum Computing for Solid Mechanics and Structural Engineering -- a Demonstration with Variational Quantum Eigensolver
Yunya Liu, Jiakun Liu, Jordan R. Raney +1
Variational quantum algorithms exploit the features of superposition and entanglement to optimize a cost function efficiently by manipulating the quantum states. They are suitable…
Improving structural damage tolerance and fracture energy via bamboo-inspired void patterns
Xiaoheng Zhu, Jiakun Liu, Yucong Hua +2
Bamboo has a functionally-graded microstructure that endows it with a combination of desirable properties, such as high failure strain, high toughness, and a low density. As a resu…
Nucleation of transition waves via collisions of elastic vector solitons
Hiromi Yasuda, Hang Shu, Weijian Jiao +2
In this work, we show that collisions of one type of nonlinear wave can lead to generation of a different kind of nonlinear wave. Specifically, we demonstrate the formation of topo…
Phase transitions in 2D multistable mechanical metamaterials via collisions of soliton-like pulses
Weijian Jiao, Hang Shu, Vincent Tournat +2
In this work, we report observations of phase transitions in 2D multistable mechanical metamaterials that are initiated by collisions of soliton-like pulses in the metamaterial. An…
Nonlinear waves in flexible mechanical metamaterials
Bolei Deng, Jordan R. Raney, Katia Bertoldi +1
Flexible mechanical metamaterials are compliant structures engineered to achieve unique properties via the large deformation of their components. While their static character has b…
Nonlinear waves at the free surface of flexible mechanical metamaterials
Bolei Deng, Hang Shu, Jian Li +4
In this letter we investigate the propagation of nonlinear pulses along the free surface of flexible metamaterials based on the rotating squares mechanism. While these metamaterial…
Wave manipulation using a bistable chain with reversible impurities
Hiromi Yasuda, Efstathios G. Charalampidis, Prashant K. Purohit +2
We systematically study linear and nonlinear wave propagation in a chain composed of piecewise-linear bistable springs. Such bistable systems are ideal testbeds for supporting nonl…
Leaf-like Origami with Bistability for Self-Adaptive Grasping Motions
Hiromi Yasuda, Kyle Johnson, Vicente Arroyos +3
The leaf-like origami structure was inspired by geometric patterns found in nature, exhibiting unique transitions between open and closed shapes. With a bistable energy landscape,…
Data-driven prediction and analysis of chaotic origami dynamics
Hiromi Yasuda, Koshiro Yamaguchi, Yasuhiro Miyazawa +3
Advances in machine learning have revolutionized capabilities in applications ranging from natural language processing to marketing to health care. Here, we demonstrate the efficac…
Continuum limits of bistable spring models of carbon nanotube arrays accounting for material damage
T. Blesgen, F. Fraternali, J. R. Raney +2
Using chains of bistable springs, a model is derived to investigate the plastic behavior of carbon nanotube arrays with damage. We study the preconditioning effect due to the loadi…