Mechanics of hard-magnetic soft materials: A review

L Lu, J Sim, RR Zhao - Mechanics of Materials, 2024 - Elsevier
Hard-magnetic soft materials are a class of magnetically responsive composites obtained by
embedding hard-magnetic particles into a soft polymeric matrix. They have found …

Wave manipulation in intelligent metamaterials: recent progress and prospects

B Wu, W Jiang, J Jiang, Z Zhao, Y Tang… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Metamaterials (MMs), which include phononic crystals (PCs) as a particular type, exhibit
anomalous wave propagation properties through artificial design of topologies or lattice …

Tunable anti-plane wave bandgaps in 2D periodic hard-magnetic soft composites

S Padmanabhan, Z Alam, AK Sharma - International Journal of Mechanical …, 2024 - Elsevier
In this paper, we present a theoretical model for the analysis of large magneto-deformation
and the anti-plane shear wave bandgaps in 2D periodic two-phase hard magnetic soft …

Dynamic modeling of hard-magnetic soft actuators: Unraveling the role of polymer chain entanglements, crosslinks, and finite extensibility

S Nandan, D Sharma, AK Sharma - Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic …, 2023 - Elsevier
In recent years, there has been increasing interest in hard-magnetic soft materials (HMSMs)
due to their ability to retain high residual magnetization and undergo large deformations …

Inverse-designed flexural wave metamaterial beams with thermally induced tunability

X Zhang, J Zhang, C Xu, J Rong, N Hu, M Deng… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Elastic metamaterials (EMMs) have been developed for more than two decades, but their
practical applications have been scarcely reported due to their narrow bandgaps, relatively …

[HTML][HTML] Smart electro-magneto-viscoelastomer minimum energy structures with particle-reinforcements: Theoretical equilibrium and nonlinear dynamics of actuated …

A Khurana, S Naskar, RK Varma… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Soft transduction technology is rapidly adopting soft active elastomer-based minimum
energy structures because of their distinctive programmable shape-morphing …

Topology optimization of hard-magnetic soft phononic structures for wide magnetically tunable band gaps

Z Alam, AK Sharma - Journal of Applied Mechanics, 2024 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Hard-magnetic soft materials (HMSMs) are a class of smart soft magnetoactive polymers
fabricated by embedding high-coercivity hard-magnetic particles such as NdFeB, CoFe2O4 …

Topological state switches in hard-magnetic meta-structures

Q Zhang, S Rudykh - Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 2025 - Elsevier
We propose a metamaterial design principle that enables the remote switching of
topological states. Dynamic breaking of space-inversion symmetry is achieved through the …

Propagation characteristics of elastic longitudinal wave in a piezoelectric semiconductor metamaterial rod and its tuning

DZ Li, SP Li, NN Ma, HM Wang, CL Zhang… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Elastic metamaterial structures have many distinct wave properties such as band gap
structure and topological phase inversion. The coexistence and interaction of piezoelectricity …

Magnetically tunable topological states in translational-rotational coupling metamaterials

Q Zhang, S Rudykh - International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 2025 - Elsevier
In this work, an approach for engineering translational-rotational coupling (TRC)
metamaterials with magnetically tunable topological states is proposed. The metamaterial …