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Non-reciprocal topological solitons in active metamaterials
Jonas Veenstra, Oleksandr Gamayun, Xiaofei Guo +3
From protein motifs to black holes, topological solitons are pervasive nonlinear excitations that are robust and can be driven by external fields. So far, existing driving mechanis…
Leveraging yield buckling to achieve ideal shock absorbers
Wenfeng Liu, Shahram Janbaz, David Dykstra +2
The ideal shock absorber combines high stiffness with high energy absorption whilst retaining structural integrity after impact and is scalable for industrial production. So far no…
Auxetic Granular Metamaterials
Daan Haver, Daniel Acuña, Shahram Janbaz +3
The flowing, jamming and avalanche behavior of granular materials is satisfyingly universal and vexingly hard to tune: a granular flow is typically intermittent and will irremediab…
Active Solids Model: Rigid Body Motion and Shape-changing Mechanisms
Claudio Hernández-López, Paul Baconnier, Corentin Coulais +2
Active solids such as cell collectives, colloidal clusters, and active metamaterials exhibit diverse collective phenomena, ranging from rigid body motion to shape-changing mechanis…
Emergent Nonlocal Combinatorial Design Rules for Multimodal Metamaterials
Ryan van Mastrigt, Corentin Coulais, Martin van Hecke
Combinatorial mechanical metamaterials feature spatially textured soft modes that yield exotic and useful mechanical properties. While a single soft mode often can be rationally de…
Inverse design of multishape metamaterials
David M. J. Dykstra, Corentin Coulais
Multishape metamaterials exhibit more than one target shape change, e.g. the same metamaterial can have either a positive or negative Poisson's ratio. So far, multishape metamateri…
Model-free characterization of topological edge and corner states in mechanical networks
Marcelo Guzman, Xiaofei Guo, Corentin Coulais +2
Topological materials can host edge and corner states that are protected from disorder and material imperfections. In particular, the topological edge states of mechanical structur…
Buckling Metamaterials for Extreme Vibration Damping
David M. J. Dykstra, Coen Lenting, Alexandre Masurier +1
Damping mechanical resonances is a formidable challenge in an increasing number of applications. Many of the passive damping methods rely on using low stiffness dissipative element…