Achieving superior reusable energy absorption and mitigation properties under repeated
impact loadings with high strain rates, yet maintaining the lightweight design feature, is still a …

Compared with traditional energy dissipation structures, negative stiffness metamaterials
can repeatedly dissipate energy without incurring irreversible plastic deformation. The …

Negative stiffness mechanical metamaterials have shown great promise for various
applications and are progressing toward programmability. The key challenge in designing …

Recently, negative stiffness (NS) has been applied in dynamic vibration absorbers (DVAs) to
achieve better control performance on dynamic responses. However, the adoption of NS …

Snap‐through instability, a rapid transition between equilibrium states, has emerged as a
crucial mechanism for designing mechanical metamaterials with novel functionalities …

This work proposes a straw-shaped structure (SS) inspired by the folds of straw. Two
samples named SSⅠ and SSⅡ with 5 and 5.5 layers of conical structures, respectively, are …

Negative stiffness structures (NSS) are a type of mechanical metamaterials that absorb
energy via buckling of negative stiffness members. However, these structures have …

With the increasing demand for vibration-isolation structures with tunable and multifunctional
properties driven by the rapid development of complex engineering applications …

Variable vibration is difficult to control due to the uncertainty and variability of vibration
frequency. Vibration absorbers are widely used in engineering, however, the efficiency of …

The ability to control Poisson's ratio of functional materials has been one of the main
objectives of researchers attempting to develop structures efficient from the perspective of …