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Tunable Pathway Selection in Coupled Multistable Snap-Through Systems
Weicheng Huang, Ke Huang, Jiaying Zhang +1
Multistable mechanical systems can store and release elastic energy through snap-through instabilities, but controlling transition pathways between stable states remains challengin…
Bifurcation reordering programs snap-through symmetry in folded elastic ribbons
Weicheng Huang, Qun Zhang, Bohan Zhang +1
Snap-through in slender elastic structures is often viewed as a sudden transition between stable configurations, yet the pathway taken during this transition can differ fundamental…
Dimple-Encoded Reprogrammable Origami
Qun Zhang, Weicheng Huang, Amir Hajiyavand +4
Programmable folding of elastic sheets typically relies on predefined flexible creases or active materials-enabled hinges, which lack intrinsic bistability and limit reprogrammabil…
Inverse design of a magneto-elastica for shape-morphing
JiaHao Li, Yingchao Zhang, Weicheng Huang +4
Slender magnetic elements provide a versatile platform for programmable shape-morphing under remote magnetic actuation. However, a general and physically interpretable framework fo…
From Folding Mechanics to Robotic Function: A Unified Modeling Framework for Compliant Origami
Bohan Zhang, Bo Wang, Huajiang Ouyang +5
Origami inspired architectures offer a powerful route toward lightweight, reconfigurable, and programmable robotic systems. Yet, a unified mechanics framework capable of seamlessly…
Inverse Discrete Elastic Rod
Jiahao Li, Mingchao Liu, Haiyi Liang +2
Inverse design of slender elastic structures underlies a wide range of applications in computer graphics, flexible electronics, biomedical devices, and soft robotics. Traditional o…
Discrete Differential Geometry for Simulating Nonlinear Behaviors of Flexible Systems: A Survey
Dezhong Tong, Andrew Choi, Jiaqi Wang +7
Flexible slender structures such as rods, ribbons, plates, and shells exhibit extreme nonlinear responses bending, twisting, buckling, wrinkling, and self contact, that defy conven…
Inverse Elastica: A Theoretical Framework for Inverse Design of Morphing Slender Structures
JiaHao Li, Weicheng Huang, YinBo Zhu +4
Inverse design of morphing slender structures with programmable curvature has significant applications in various engineering fields. Most existing studies formulate it as an optim…
Midveins regulate the shape formation of drying leaves
Kexin Guo, Yafei Zhang, Massimo Paradiso +3
Dried leaves in nature often exhibit curled and crumpled morphologies, typically attributed to internal strain gradients that produce dome-like shapes. However, the origin of these…
A tutorial on simulating nonlinear behaviors of flexible structures with the discrete differential geometry (DDG) method
Weicheng Huang, Zhuonan Hao, Jiahao Li +6
Flexible elastic structures, such as beams, rods, ribbons, plates, and shells, exhibit complex nonlinear dynamical behaviors that are central to a wide range of engineering and sci…
Real-time simulation enabled navigation control of magnetic soft continuum robots in confined lumens
Dezhong Tong, Zhuonan Hao, Jiyu Li +4
Magnetic soft continuum robots (MSCRs) have emerged as a promising technology for minimally invasive interventions, offering enhanced dexterity and remote-controlled navigation in…
Harnessing Discrete Differential Geometry: A Virtual Playground for the Bilayer Soft Robotics
Jiahao Li, Dezhong Tong, Zhuonan Hao +4
Soft robots have garnered significant attention due to their promising applications across various domains. A hallmark of these systems is their bilayer structure, where strain mis…
How do imperfections cause asymmetry in elastic snap-through?
Andrea Giudici, Weicheng Huang, Qiong Wang +4
A symmetrically-buckled arch whose boundaries are clamped at an angle has two stable equilibria: an inverted and a natural state. When the distance between the clamps is increased…
Inverse Design of Snap-Actuated Jumping Robots Powered by Mechanics-Aided Machine Learning
Dezhong Tong, Zhuonan Hao, Mingchao Liu +1
Exploring the design and control strategies of soft robots through simulation is highly attractive due to its cost-effectiveness. Although many existing models (e.g., finite elemen…
Localized tension-induced giant folding in unstructured elastic sheets
Kexin Guo, Marc Suñé, Kwok Ming Li +3
Buckling in compression is the archetype of elastic instability: when compressed along its longest dimension, a thin structure such as a playing card will buckle out-of-plane accom…
Simplified discrete model for axisymmetric dielectric elastomer membranes with robotic applications
Zhaowei Liu, Mingchao Liu, K. Jimmy Hsia +2
Soft robots utilizing inflatable dielectric membranes can realize intricate functionalities through the application of non-mechanical fields. However, given the current limitations…
Discrete differential geometry-based model for nonlinear analysis of axisymmetric shells
Weicheng Huang, Tianzhen Liu, Zhaowei Liu +4
In this paper, we propose a novel one-dimensional (1D) discrete differential geometry (DDG)-based numerical method for geometrically nonlinear mechanics analysis (e.g., buckling an…
Exploiting dynamic bifurcation in elastic ribbons for mode skipping and selection
Weicheng Huang, Tian Yu, Dominic Vella +2
In this paper, we systematically study the dynamic snap-through behavior of a pre-deformed elastic ribbon by combining theoretical analysis, discrete numerical simulations, and exp…
Transient amplification of broken symmetry in elastic snap-through
Qiong Wang, Andrea Giudici, Weicheng Huang +4
A snap-through bifurcation occurs when a bistable structure loses one of its stable states and moves rapidly to the remaining state. For example, a buckled arch with symmetrically…
Snap-induced morphing: From a single bistable shell to the origin of shape bifurcation in interacting shells
Mingchao Liu, Lucie Domino, Iris Dupont de Dinechin +2
The bistability of embedded elements provides a natural route through which to introduce reprogrammability to elastic meta-materials. One example of this is the soft morphable shee…
Delayed bifurcation in elastic snap-through instabilities
Mingchao Liu, Michael Gomez, Dominic Vella
We study elastic snap-through induced by a control parameter that evolves dynamically. In particular, we study an elastic arch subject to an end-shortening that evolves linearly wi…