We have located links that may give you full text access.
Viscoelastic multistable architected materials with temperature-dependent snapping sequence.
Soft Matter 2018 March 29
When an architected material with snap-through instabilities is loaded, the unit cells of the architected material snap sequentially to a series of deformed configurations. In this paper, we propose the novel concept of multimaterial viscoelastic architected materials whose snapping sequence can be tuned using temperature as a control parameter. Because different polymers have different temperature-dependent properties, it is possible that one polymer that is stiffer than another polymer at one temperature becomes softer at a higher temperature. A 3D printing inverse molding process is used to fabricate soft multimaterial architected materials that consist of two different polymers. Using finite element simulations and experiments, we demonstrate that the snapping sequence of these multimaterial architected materials depends on temperature. The influence of the geometrical parameters of the design on the critical temperature at which the snapping sequence switches from one sequence to another sequence is systematically analyzed using simulations and experiments. Being able to tune the snapping sequence using temperature makes it possible to obtain a large number of distinct stable configurations in response to compressive loads. To illustrate a potential application, we demonstrate that these materials can be used as soft reconfigurable metamaterials with tunable stiffness.
Full text links
Related Resources
Trending Papers
Challenges in Septic Shock: From New Hemodynamics to Blood Purification Therapies.Journal of Personalized Medicine 2024 Februrary 4
Molecular Targets of Novel Therapeutics for Diabetic Kidney Disease: A New Era of Nephroprotection.International Journal of Molecular Sciences 2024 April 4
Perioperative echocardiographic strain analysis: what anesthesiologists should know.Canadian Journal of Anaesthesia 2024 April 11
The 'Ten Commandments' for the 2023 European Society of Cardiology guidelines for the management of endocarditis.European Heart Journal 2024 April 18
Get seemless 1-tap access through your institution/university
For the best experience, use the Read mobile app
All material on this website is protected by copyright, Copyright © 1994-2024 by WebMD LLC.
This website also contains material copyrighted by 3rd parties.
By using this service, you agree to our terms of use and privacy policy.
Your Privacy Choices
You can now claim free CME credits for this literature searchClaim now
Get seemless 1-tap access through your institution/university
For the best experience, use the Read mobile app