3 papers
cond-mat.soft2020
Automatic Design of Mechanical Metamaterial Actuators
Silvia Bonfanti, Roberto Guerra, Francesc Font Clos +2
Mechanical metamaterials actuators achieve pre-determined input--output operations exploiting architectural features encoded within a single 3D printed element, thus removing the n…
cond-mat.soft2018
Density scaling in the mechanics of a disordered mechanical meta-material
Daniel Rayneau-Kirkhope, Silvia Bonfanti, Stefano Zapperi
Nature provides examples of self-assemble lightweight disordered network structures with remarkable mechanical properties which are desirable for many applications purposes but cha…
cond-mat.soft2016
Designing recipes for auxetic behaviour of 2-d lattices
Daniel J. Rayneau-Kirkhope, Marcelo A. Dias
We present an analytical model to investigate the mechanics of 2-dimensional lattices composed of elastic beams of non-uniform cross-section. Our approach is based on reducing a la…