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most citedSome results on the Guest-Hutchinson modes and periodic mechanisms of the Kagome lattice metamaterial

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math-ph2026

Pseudo-magnetism in a strained discrete honeycomb lattice

Xuenan Li, Michael I. Weinstein

Slowly varying nonuniform strains of non-magnetic wave propagating media with honeycomb symmetry induce an effective- or pseudo-magnetic field, a phenomenon observed first in graph…

math-ph2025

An Asymptotic Approach for Modeling Multiscale Complex Fluids at the Fast Relaxation Limit

Xuenan Li, Chun Liu, Di Qi

We present a new asymptotic strategy for general micro-macro models which analyze complex viscoelastic fluids governed by coupled multiscale dynamics. In such models, the elastic s…

math.MG2025

A Constrained Optimization Approach for Constructing Rigid Bar Frameworks with Higher-order Rigidity

Xuenan Li, Christian D. Santangelo, Miranda Holmes-Cerfon

We present a systematic approach for constructing bar frameworks that are rigid but not first-order rigid, using constrained optimization. We show that prestress stable (but not fi…

math.AP2025

A nonlinear homogenization-based perspective on the soft modes and effective energies of some conformal metamaterials

Xuenan Li, Robert V. Kohn

There is a growing mechanics literature concerning the macroscopic properties of mechanism-based mechanical metamaterials. This amounts mathematically to a homogenization problem i…

math-ph2025

The effective energy of a lattice metamaterial

Xuenan Li, Robert V. Kohn

We study the sense in which the continuum limit of a broad class of discrete materials with periodic structures can be viewed as a nonlinear elastic material. While we are not the…

cs.RO2025

A Constrained Saddle Search Approach for Constructing Singular and Flexible Bar Frameworks

Xuenan Li, Mihnea Leonte, Christian D. Santangelo +1

Singularity analysis is essential in robot kinematics, as singular configurations cause loss of control and kinematic indeterminacy. This paper models singularities in bar framewor…

math-ph2022★ 17 cited

Some results on the Guest-Hutchinson modes and periodic mechanisms of the Kagome lattice metamaterial

Xuenan Li, Robert V. Kohn

Lattice materials are interesting mechanical metamaterials, and their mechanical properties are often related to the presence of mechanisms. The existence of periodic mechanisms ca…