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20182026
most citedAutomated discovery of reprogrammable nonlinear dynamic metamaterials

79 citations · 198 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

physics.app-ph2026

Wave-based reading of mechanical memory in multistable mass-in-mass metamaterials

Audrey Watkins, Giovanni Bordiga, Vincent Tournat +1

Mechanical metamaterials with integrated bistable elements have emerged as promising platforms for mechanical information storage, where transitions between stable states encode in…

cond-mat.soft2026

Conformal Elastodynamics in 2D Dilational Metamaterials

Neel Singh, Audrey A. Watkins, Giovanni Bordiga +3

Flexible mechanical structures can undergo large deformations under small loads, enabling large, complex, and nonlinear wave responses under finite-frequency driving. Here, we stud…

physics.app-ph2025

Nonlinear mechanical metamaterial cloaks

Giovanni Bordiga, Jean-Gabriel Argaud, Audrey A. Watkins +2

The concept of cloaking -- hiding objects from external detection -- has seen wide success in linear systems. Yet, translating these advancements to nonlinear mechanical systems re…

physics.app-ph2025

Arbitrary mechanical memory encoding via nonlinear waves in bistable metamaterials

Audrey A. Watkins, Giovanni Bordiga, Mingxing Mu +2

Mechanical metamaterials composed of bistable elements have recently emerged as promising platforms for mechanical memory. Traditional approaches to writing information in these sy…

cond-mat.soft2024

Textile hinges enable extreme properties of mechanical metamaterials

A. S. Meeussen, G. Bordiga, A. X. Chang +4

Mechanical metamaterials -- structures with unusual properties that emerge from their internal architecture -- that are designed to undergo large deformations typically exploit lar…

physics.app-ph2024★ 79 cited

Automated discovery of reprogrammable nonlinear dynamic metamaterials

Giovanni Bordiga, Eder Medina, Sina Jafarzadeh +4

Harnessing the rich nonlinear dynamics of highly-deformable materials has the potential to unlock the next generation of functional smart materials and devices. However, unlocking…

physics.app-ph2022★ 9 cited

Tensile material instabilities in elastic beam lattices lead to a bounded stability domain

G. Bordiga, D. Bigoni, A. Piccolroaz

Homogenization of the incremental response of grids made up of preloaded elastic rods leads to homogeneous effective continua which may suffer macroscopic instability, occurring at…

physics.class-ph2021

A way to hypo-elastic artificial materials without a strain potential and displaying flutter instability

G. Bordiga, A. Piccolroaz, D. Bigoni

Cauchy-elastic solids include hyper-elasticity and a subset of elastic materials for which the stress does not follow from a scalar strain potential. More in general, hypo-elastic…

physics.class-ph2021★ 38 cited

Dynamics of prestressed elastic lattices: homogenization, instabilities, and strain localization

Giovanni Bordiga, Luigi Cabras, Andrea Piccolroaz +1

A lattice of elastic Rayleigh rods organized in a parallelepiped geometry can be axially loaded up to an arbitrary amount without distortion and then be subject to incremental time…

physics.class-ph2020

Incremental constitutive tensors and strain localization for prestressed elastic lattices: Part I -- quasi-static response

G. Bordiga, L. Cabras, A. Piccolroaz +1

A lattice of elastic rods organized in a parallelepiped geometry can be axially loaded up to an arbitrary amount without distortion and then be subject to incremental displacements…

physics.class-ph2020★ 38 cited

Incremental constitutive tensors and strain localization for prestressed elastic lattices: Part II -- incremental dynamics

G. Bordiga, L. Cabras, A. Piccolroaz +1

Floquet-Bloch wave asymptotics is used to homogenize the in-plane mechanical response of a periodic grillage of elastic Rayleigh rods, possessing a distributed mass density, togeth…

physics.class-ph2019★ 33 cited

Prestress tuning of negative refraction and wave channeling from flexural sources

G. Bordiga, L. Cabras, A. Piccolroaz +1

The quest for wave channeling and manipulation has driven a strong research effort on topological and architected materials, capable of propagating localized electromagnetical or m…

physics.class-ph2018★ 1 cited

Free and forced wave propagation in a Rayleigh-beam grid: flat bands, Dirac cones, and vibration localization vs isotropization

G. Bordiga, L. Cabras, D. Bigoni +1

In-plane wave propagation in a periodic rectangular grid beam structure, which includes rotational inertia (so-called 'Rayleigh beams'), is analyzed both with a Floquet-Bloch exact…