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Snapping Mechanical Metamaterials under Tension

Soft Condensed Matter 2016-12-20 v1

Abstract

We present a monolithic mechanical metamaterial comprising a periodic arrangement of snapping units with tunable tensile behavior. Under tension, the metamaterial undergoes a large extension caused by sequential snap-through instabilities, and exhibits a pattern switch from an undeformed wavy-shape to a diamond configuration. By means of experiments performed on 3D printed prototypes, numerical simulations and theoretical modeling, we demonstrate how the snapping architecture can be tuned to generate a range of nonlinear mechanical responses including monotonic, S-shaped, plateau and non-monotonic snap-through behavior. This work contributes to the development of design strategies that allow programming nonlinear mechanical responses in solids.

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@article{arxiv.1612.05987,
  title  = {Snapping Mechanical Metamaterials under Tension},
  author = {Ahmad Rafsanjani and Abdolhamid Akbarzadeh and Damiano Pasini},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.05987},
  year   = {2016}
}
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