3 papers
cond-mat.soft2026
Conformal Elastodynamics in 2D Dilational Metamaterials
Neel Singh, Audrey A. Watkins, Giovanni Bordiga +3
Flexible mechanical structures can undergo large deformations under small loads, enabling large, complex, and nonlinear wave responses under finite-frequency driving. Here, we stud…
physics.app-ph2025
Nonlinear mechanical metamaterial cloaks
Giovanni Bordiga, Jean-Gabriel Argaud, Audrey A. Watkins +2
The concept of cloaking -- hiding objects from external detection -- has seen wide success in linear systems. Yet, translating these advancements to nonlinear mechanical systems re…
physics.app-ph2025
Arbitrary mechanical memory encoding via nonlinear waves in bistable metamaterials
Audrey A. Watkins, Giovanni Bordiga, Mingxing Mu +2
Mechanical metamaterials composed of bistable elements have recently emerged as promising platforms for mechanical memory. Traditional approaches to writing information in these sy…