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Prestressed elasticity of amorphous solids
Shang Zhang, Ethan Stanifer, Vishwas Vasisht +3
Prestress in amorphous solids bears the memory of their formation, and plays a profound role in their mechanical properties, from stiffening or softening elastic moduli to shifting…
Topological Flexural Modes in Polarized Bilayer Lattices
Mohammad Charara, Kai Sun, Xiaoming Mao +1
Topological lattices have recently generated a great deal of interest based on the unique mechanical properties rooted in their topological polarization, including the ability to s…
Topological Floppy Modes in Epithelial Tissues
Harry Liu, Di Zhou, Leyou Zhang +2
Recent advances in topological mechanics have revealed unusual phenomena such as topologically protected floppy modes and states of self-stress that are exponentially localized at…
Fractional solitons in non-Euclidian elastic plates
Kai Sun, Xiaoming Mao
We show that minimal-surface non-Euclidean elastic plates share the same low-energy effective theory as Haldane's dimerized quantum spin chain. As a result, such elastic plates sup…