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Design principles for energy dissipation in viscoelastic network metamaterials
Niranjan Sarpangala, Sean Fancher, Prashant K. Purohit +1
The paper presents a graph‑Laplacian spectral method to efficiently model viscoelastic truss networks and uses it to design architectures that maximize mechanical energy dissipatio…
Topological building blocks of nonequilibrium response
Sean Fancher, Jordan Horowitz
The paper characterizes the full range of nonequilibrium response behaviors by identifying optimal models whose sensitivity is set by the topology of the state space, and conjectur…
Effects of cell-cell communication on bacterial chemotaxis
Soutick Saha, Sean Fancher, Andrew Mugler
Bacteria track chemical gradients using a biased random walk, a process called chemotaxis. Experiments suggest that bacteria also communicate during this process. Using a mathemati…
An efficient spectral method for the dynamic behavior of truss structures
Sean Fancher, Prashant Purohit, Eleni Katifori
Truss structures at macro-scale are common in a number of engineering applications and are now being increasingly used at the micro-scale to construct metamaterials. In analyzing t…