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Shape optimization of pneumatic soft actuators
Anna Dalklint, Vilmer Dahlberg, Katia Bertoldi
Soft actuators, characterized by their compliance and flexibility, have tremendous potential for diverse applications, ranging from medical devices to submarine operations. However…
Unravelling the Mechanics of Knitted Fabrics Through Hierarchical Geometric Representation
Xiaoxiao Ding, Vanessa Sanchez, Katia Bertoldi +1
Knitting interloops one-dimensional yarns into three-dimensional fabrics that exhibit behaviours beyond their constitutive materials. How extensibility and anisotropy emerge from t…
Nonlinear waves in flexible mechanical metamaterials
Bolei Deng, Jordan R. Raney, Katia Bertoldi +1
Flexible mechanical metamaterials are compliant structures engineered to achieve unique properties via the large deformation of their components. While their static character has b…
Nonlinear waves at the free surface of flexible mechanical metamaterials
Bolei Deng, Hang Shu, Jian Li +4
In this letter we investigate the propagation of nonlinear pulses along the free surface of flexible metamaterials based on the rotating squares mechanism. While these metamaterial…
Ultralight and ultra-stiff nano-cardboard panels: mechanical analysis, characterization, and design principles
Jong-hyoung Kim, Lishuai Jin, Benjamin C. Schafer +4
We introduce a class of ultra-light and ultra-stiff sandwich panels designed for use in photophoretic levitation applications and investigate their mechanical behavior using both c…
MuA-Ori: Multimodal Actuated Origami
Antonio Elia Forte, David Melancon, Leon M. Kamp +2
Recently, inflatable elements integrated in robotics systems have enabled complex motions as a result of simple inputs. However, these fluidic actuators typically exhibit unimodal…