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Assur graphs, marginally jammed packings, and reconfigurable metamaterials
Jose Ortiz, Ethan Stanifer, Xiaoming Mao
Isostatic frames are mechanical networks that are simultaneously rigid and free of self-stress states, and is a powerful concept in understanding phase transitions in soft matter a…
Stress-stress Correlations Reveal Force Chains in Gels
H. A. Vinutha, Fabiola Diaz Ruiz, Xiaoming Mao +2
We investigate the spatial correlations of microscopic stresses in soft particulate gels, using 2D and 3D numerical simulations. We use a recently developed theoretical framework p…
Stress focusing and damage protection in topological Maxwell metamaterials
Caleb Widstrand, Chen Hu, Xiaoming Mao +2
Advances in the field of topological mechanics have highlighted a number of special mechanical properties of Maxwell lattices, including the ability to focus zero-energy floppy mod…
Soft mechanical metamaterials with transformable topology protected by stress caching
Jason Christopher Jolly, Binjie Jin, Lishuai Jin +6
Maxwell lattice metamaterials possess a rich phase space with distinct topological states featuring mechanically polarized edge behaviors and strongly asymmetric acoustic responses…
Synthetically Non-Hermitian Nonlinear Wave-like Behavior in a Topological Mechanical Metamaterial
Haning Xiu, Ian Frankel, Harry Liu +6
Topological mechanical metamaterials have enabled new ways to control stress and deformation propagation. Exemplified by Maxwell lattices, they have been studied extensively using…
Multistable Topological Mechanical Metamaterials
Haning Xiu, Harry Liu, Andrea Poli +4
Concepts from quantum topological states of matter have been extensively utilized in the past decade in creating mechanical metamaterials with topologically protected features, suc…