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. 2016 Sep;28(36):7915-7920.
doi: 10.1002/adma.201601650. Epub 2016 Jul 6.

Multistable Shape-Reconfigurable Architected Materials

Babak Haghpanah  1 , Ladan Salari-Sharif  1 , Peyman Pourrajab  1 , Jonathan Hopkins  2 , Lorenzo Valdevit  3
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Multistable Shape-Reconfigurable Architected Materials

Babak Haghpanah et al. Adv Mater. 2016 Sep.

Abstract

Multistable shape-reconfigurable architected materials encompassing living hinges and enabling combinations of high strength, high volumetric change, and complex shape-morphing patterns are introduced. Analytical and numerical investigations, validated by experiments, are performed to characterize the mechanical behavior of the proposed materials. The proposed architected materials can be constructed from virtually any base material, at any length scale and dimensionality.

Keywords: energy absorption; metamaterials; multistable materials; negative stiffness; shape morphing materials.

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