Multistability is the phenomenon of multiple coexistent stable states, which are highly
sensitive to perturbations, initial conditions, system parameters, etc. Multistability has been …

Bistable laminates have attracted considerable interest among researchers as prospective
candidates for delivering exceptional performance within the domain of morphing structures …

The bistable asymmetric composite laminated structures have the broad applications in the
design of the deformable aircrafts and energy harvester due to the unique nonlinear …

The room-temperature equilibrium stable states of cured unsymmetric composite laminates
have been the focus of recent research, with a particular emphasis on shape morphing …

In recent years the use of multi-stable components for designing adaptive structures and
energy harvesting systems has been broadly investigated. Most of these studies have …

The nonlinear dynamics of cantilever bistable shells with asymmetric stable configurations is
investigated. The possibility of maximizing the kinetic energy associated with snap-through …

This paper studies the occurrence conditions of the metastable chaos by analyzing the
potential well evolution from the double potential wells to triple potential wells in the bistable …

This manuscript investigates the snap-through characteristics of a special class of hybrid
bistable symmetric laminate (HBSL) subjected to different loading constraints and …

A novel bistable hybrid composite laminate embedded with bimetallic strips was designed
by combining the stable-state characteristics of the bistable laminate with the temperature …

The realization of the dynamic snap-through behaviors provides the new design ideas in the
fields of the morphing aircraft and piezoelectric energy harvesting. This paper studies 1: 2 …