Mechanical metamaterials and beyond

P Jiao, J Mueller, JR Raney, X Zheng… - Nature communications, 2023 - nature.com
Mechanical metamaterials enable the creation of structural materials with unprecedented
mechanical properties. However, thus far, research on mechanical metamaterials has …

Vibration control based metamaterials and origami structures: A state-of-the-art review

JC Ji, Q Luo, K Ye - Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 2021 - Elsevier
Vibration and sound control is critical to many practical engineering systems in order to
minimise the detrimental effects caused by unavoidable vibrations and noises …

The design, manufacture and application of multistable mechanical metamaterials-a state-of-the-art review

R Xu, C Chen, J Sun, Y He, X Li, MH Lu… - International Journal of …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Multistable mechanical metamaterials are a type of mechanical metamaterials with special
features, such as reusability, energy storage and absorption capabilities, rapid deformation …

[HTML][HTML] A novel gradient negative stiffness honeycomb for recoverable energy absorption

S Chen, X Tan, J Hu, S Zhu, B Wang, L Wang… - Composites Part B …, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper designs a novel reusable gradient negative stiffness (GNS) honeycomb structure
and focuses on investigating its energy absorption (EA). Contrary to classical normal …

Programmable multistable perforated shellular

J Shi, H Mofatteh, A Mirabolghasemi… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Develo** bistable metamaterials has recently offered a new design paradigm for
deployable structures and reusable dampers. While most bistable mechanisms possess …

Real-time tunable negative stiffness mechanical metamaterial

X Tan, S Chen, B Wang, J Tang, L Wang, S Zhu… - Extreme Mechanics …, 2020 - Elsevier
Real-time tunable mechanical metamaterial is an emerging field attracting great attention. It
enables a wide range of mechanical properties but is hard to design and fabricate due to its …

Mechanical energy metamaterials in interstellar travel

P Jiao - Progress in Materials Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Nanoscale spacecrafts have shed light on an audacious but promising vision for interstellar
travel to neighboring planets beyond the solar system. The nanocrafts can be accelerated to …

[HTML][HTML] Novel multifunctional negative stiffness mechanical metamaterial structure: tailored functions of multi-stable and compressive mono-stable

B Chen, L Chen, B Du, H Liu, W Li, D Fang - Composites Part B …, 2021 - Elsevier
Negative stiffness (NS) mechanical metamaterials have excellent application prospect in a
broad range of fields such as energy trap**, repeated energy absorption and so on …

A quasi-zero-stiffness elastic metamaterial for energy absorption and shock attenuation

S Guo, R Gao, X Tian, S Liu - Engineering Structures, 2023 - Elsevier
A multi-step quasi-zero-stiffness metamaterial (MS-QZSM) is proposed, which exhibits
potential applications in various engineering scenarios, such as multi-vibration mitigation …

Continuous carbon fiber reinforced composite negative stiffness mechanical metamaterial for recoverable energy absorption

S Chen, X Tan, J Hu, B Wang, L Wang, Y Zou, L Wu - Composite Structures, 2022 - Elsevier
This study investigated negative stiffness (NS) mechanical metamaterials, which are
potential in the energy absorption field. However, critical drawback of low specific energy …