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Rigidity of generic random tensegrity structures
Vishal Sudhakar, William Stephenson, James P. McInerney +1
Many mechanical structures, both engineered and biological, combine heavy rigid elements such as bones and beams with lightweight flexible ones such as cables and membranes. These…
Novel mechanical response of parallelogram-face origami governed by topological characteristics
Yanxin Feng, Andrew Wu, James McInerney +3
Origami principles are used to create strong, lightweight structures with complex mechanical response. However, identifying the fundamental physical principles that determine a she…
Orisometry formalism reveals duality and exotic nonuniform response in origami sheets
Michael Czajkowski, James McInerney, Andrew M. Wu +1
Origami metamaterial design enables drastic qualitative changes in the response properties of a thin sheet via the addition of a repeating pattern of folds based around a rigid fol…
Rigidity percolation in a random tensegrity via analytic graph theory
William Stephenson, Vishal Sudhakar, James McInerney +2
Functional structures from across the engineered and biological world combine rigid elements such as bones and columns with flexible ones such as cables, fibers and membranes. Thes…
Omnimodal topological polarization of bilayer networks: analysis in the Maxwell limit and experiments on a 3D-printed prototype
Mohammad Charara, James McInerney, Kai Sun +2
Periodic networks on the verge of mechanical instability, called Maxwell lattices, are known to exhibit zero-frequency modes localized to their boundaries. Topologically polarized…
Band theory and boundary modes of high-dimensional representations of infinite hyperbolic lattices
Nan Cheng, Francesco Serafin, James McInerney +3
Periodic lattices in hyperbolic space are characterized by symmetries beyond Euclidean crystallographic groups, offering a new platform for classical and quantum waves, demonstrati…
Locomotion without force, and impulse via dissipation: Robotic swimming in curved space via geometric phase
Shengkai Li, Tianyu Wang, Velin H. Kojouharov +5
Locomotion by shape changes (spermatozoon swimming, snake slithering, bird flapping) or gas expulsion (rocket firing) is assumed to require environmental interaction, due to conser…
Discrete symmetries control mechanical response in parallelogram-based origami
James McInerney, Glaucio H. Paulino, D. Zeb Rocklin
Geometric compatibility constraints dictate the mechanical response of soft systems that can be utilized for the design of mechanical metamaterials such as the negative Poisson rat…
Hidden symmetries generate rigid folding mechanisms in periodic origami
James McInerney, Bryan Gin-ge Chen, Louis Theran +2
We consider the zero-energy deformations of periodic origami sheets with generic crease patterns. Using a mapping from the linear folding motions of such sheets to force-bearing mo…
Coping with Junk Radiation in Binary Black Hole Simulations
Kenny Higginbotham, Bhavesh Khamesra, Jame P. McInerney +3
Spurious junk radiation in the initial data for binary black hole numerical simulations has been an issue of concern. The radiation affects the masses and spins of the black holes,…
Cosmography of KNdS Black Holes and Isentropic Phase Transitions
James McInerney, Gautam Satishchandran, Jennie Traschen
We present a new analysis of Kerr-Newman-deSitter black holes in terms of thermodynamic quantities that are defined in the observable portion of the universe; between the black hol…