Nature Communications (Jan 2021)

Universally bistable shells with nonzero Gaussian curvature for two-way transition waves

  • Nikolaos Vasios,
  • Bolei Deng,
  • Benjamin Gorissen,
  • Katia Bertoldi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20698-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Curved elastic shells have unique mechanical behavior and multiple stable configurations, but these properties fade when the shell thickness increases. Here the authors report a strategy to realize bistable doubly curved shells with arbitrary thickness, and how to optimize the dynamic response of one-dimensional connected arrays of such doubly-curved bistable shells.