3 papers
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.class-ph2025
Harnessing Oscillatory Dynamics for Reprogrammable Mechanical Functionality
Sophie Monnery, Giada Risso, Loucas Plado Costante +2
A long-standing goal in the field of "mechanical computing" is the creation of truly reprogrammable mechanical structures, where the function of each unit can be dynamically define…
math-ph2025
Wave-number lock-in in buckled elastic structures: an analogue to parametric instabilities
Helen E. Read, Giada Risso, Adel Djellouli +2
Parametric instabilities are a known feature of periodically driven dynamic systems; at particular frequencies and amplitudes of the driving modulation, the system's quasi-periodic…