Instabilities in solids and structures are ubiquitous across all length and time scales, and
engineering design principles have commonly aimed at preventing instability. However …

This paper provides a review of models and solutions for the buckling and postbuckling of
beams available from the 50s of the last century to date. Beams with axially unrestrained …

Multistable mechanical metamaterials are materials that have multiple stable configurations.
The geometrical changes caused by the transition of the metamaterial from one stable state …

Multi-stable metastructures composed of curved beams can switch to a series of stable
configurations via elastic snap-through transitions. The elastic deformations allow …

The results of theoretical and experimental investigation of an initially curved clamped–
clamped microbeam actuated by a distributed electrostatic force are presented. Reduced …

This paper presents a novel biomimetic approach to the kinematics of deployable systems
for architectural purposes. Elastic deformation of the entire structure replaces the need for …

Owing to extensive potential applications in various engineering areas, the multistable
metamaterials with remarkable mechanical properties have gained increasing interest from …

In architecture, kinetic structures enable buildings to react specifically to internal and
external stimuli through spatial adjustments. These mechanical devices come in all shapes …

Simplified methods for approximating the global, distortional, and local critical elastic
buckling loads of cold-formed steel columns and beams with holes are developed and …

The elastic buckling of shell structures such as spherical shells subject to external pressure
and cylindrical shells loaded in axial compression is highly sensitive to imperfections and …