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

Hexagonal ring origami is a type of foldable structure that has impressive packing abilities
and can be tessellated into two-dimensional or three-dimensional surfaces without any gap …

Mechanical bistable structures have two stable equilibria and can transit between them
under external stimuli. Due to their unique behaviors such as snap-through and substantial …

The bistability of embedded elements provides a natural route through which to introduce
reprogrammability to elastic meta-materials. One example of this is the soft morphable sheet …

Snap-through instability can occur after a significant time delay for some viscoelastic
structures under certain loading history; the mechanisms of this phenomenon in viscoelastic …

We propose a design for a building block of a periodic cellular material that mimics the
salient behaviors, superelasticity and shape memory, exhibited by shape memory alloys …

Jump-to-contact is a commonly observed phenomenon in atomic force microscopy (AFM)
measurements. It occurs when the AFM tip approaches the surface of the substrate, and the …

Mechanical metamaterials made of flexible building blocks can exhibit a plethora of extreme
mechanical responses, such as negative elastic constants, shape-changes …

Discrete elastic rods (DER) method provides a computationally efficient means of simulating
the nonlinear dynamics of one-dimensional slender structures. However, this dynamic …

A snap-through bifurcation occurs when a bistable structure loses one of its stable states
and moves rapidly to the remaining state. For example, a buckled arch with symmetrically …