2 papers
cond-mat.soft2021
Efficient snap-through of spherical caps by applying a localized curvature stimulus
Lucia Stein-Montalvo, Jeong-Ho Lee, Yi Yang +3
In bistable actuators and other engineered devices, a homogeneous stimulus (e.g. mechanical, chemical, thermal, or magnetic) is often applied to an entire shell to initiate a snap-…
physics.app-ph2018
Multistable Kirigami for Tunable Architected Materials
Yi Yang, Marcelo A. Dias, Douglas P. Holmes
In nature, materials such as ferroelastics and multiferroics can switch their microstructure in response to external stimuli, and this reconfiguration causes a simultaneous modulat…