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Transformable topological mechanical metamaterials
D. Zeb Rocklin, Shangnan Zhou, Kai Sun +1
Mechanical metamaterials are engineered materials that gain their remarkable mechanical properties, such as negative Poisson's ratios, negative compressibility, phononic bandgaps,…
Nonlinear elasticity of disordered fiber networks
Jingchen Feng, Herbert Levine, Xiaoming Mao +1
Disordered biopolymer gels have striking mechanical properties including strong nonlinearities. In the case of athermal gels (such as collagen-I) the nonlinearity has long been ass…
Finite-temperature buckling of an extensible rod
Deshpreet Singh Bedi, Xiaoming Mao
Thermal fluctuations can play an important role in the buckling of elastic objects at small scales, such as polymers or nanotubes. In this paper, we study the finite-temperature bu…
Finite temperature mechanical instability in disordered lattices
Leyou Zhang, Xiaoming Mao
Mechanical instability takes different forms in various ordered and disordered systems. We study the effect of thermal fluctuations in two disordered central-force lattice models n…
Phonons and elasticity in critically coordinated lattices
T C Lubensky, C L Kane, Xiaoming Mao +2
Much of our understanding of vibrational excitations and elasticity is based upon analysis of frames consisting of sites connected by bonds occupied by central-force springs, the s…