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Gyrophilia: Harnessing Centrifugal and Euler Forces for Tunable Buckling of a Rotating Elastica
Eduardo Gutierrez-Prieto, Michael Gomez, Pedro M. Reis
We investigate the geometrically nonlinear deformation and buckling of a slender elastic beam subject to time-dependent `fictitious' (non-inertial) forces arising from unsteady rot…
Designing a braille reader using the snap buckling of bistable magnetic shells
Arefeh Abbasi, Tian Chen, Bastien F. G. Aymon +1
A design concept is introduced for the building block, a dot, of programmable braille readers utilizing bistable shell buckling, magnetic actuation, and pneumatic loading. The desi…
Defect-Defect Interactions in the Buckling of Imperfect Spherical Shells
Fani Derveni, Arefeh Abbasi, Pedro M. Reis
We perform finite element simulations to study the impact of defect-defect interactions on the pressure-induced buckling of thin, elastic, spherical shells containing two dimpled i…
Fluid--structure interactions of bristled wings: The trade-off between weight and drag
Yuexia Luna Lin, Matteo Pezzulla, Pedro M. Reis
The smallest flying insects often have bristled wings resembling feathers or combs. We combined experiments and three-dimensional numerical simulations to investigate the trade-off…
Twisting instabilities in elastic ribbons with inhomogeneous pre-stress: a macroscopic analog of thermodynamic phase transition
Michael Gomez, Pedro M. Reis, Basile Audoly
We study elastic ribbons subject to large, tensile pre-stress confined to a central region within the cross-section. These ribbons can buckle spontaneously to form helical shapes,…
Stick-slip in a stack: how slip dissonance reveals aging
Samuel Poincloux, Pedro M. Reis, Tom W. J. de Geus
We perform physical and numerical experiments to study the stick-slip response of a stack of slabs in contact through dry frictional interfaces driven in quasistatic shear. The rat…