3 papers
cond-mat.soft2023
Robustness of stress focusing in soft lattices under topology-switching deformation
Caleb Widstrand, Xiaoming Mao, Stefano Gonella
Recent developments in topological mechanics have demonstrated the ability of Maxwell lattices to effectively focus stress along domain walls between differently polarized domains.…
cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022
Stress focusing and damage protection in topological Maxwell metamaterials
Caleb Widstrand, Chen Hu, Xiaoming Mao +2
Advances in the field of topological mechanics have highlighted a number of special mechanical properties of Maxwell lattices, including the ability to focus zero-energy floppy mod…
physics.app-ph2021
Bandgap tuning in kerfed metastrips under extreme deformation
Caleb Widstrand, Negar Kalantar, Stefano Gonella
The process of kerfing enables planar structures with the ability to undergo dramatic out-of-plane deformation in response to static loads. Starting from flat and stiff sheets, ker…