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physics.app-ph2026
Transition Waves in Mechanical Metamaterials with Neighbor-Programmable Energy Landscapes
Eleonore Duval, Giada Risso, Alex Zhang +2
Transition waves in mechanical metamaterials manifest themselves as propagating interfaces between different stable states in lattices composed of arrays of coupled, intrinsically…
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…