Magnetic field-induced asymmetric mechanical metamaterials

• Published in: Extreme Mechanics Letters Vol. 59; p. 101957
• Main Authors: Zhang, Quan, Cherkasov, Andrei V., Arora, Nitesh, Hu, Gengkai, Rudykh, Stephan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Ltd 01.03.2023
• Subjects: Band gaps; Hard-magnetic soft materials; Magnetoactive mechanical metamaterials; Reconfigurable microstructures; Reconfigurable microstructures; Hard-magnetic soft materials; Magnetoactive mechanical metamaterials; Band gaps

We propose a magnetic field-induced asymmetric mechanical metamaterial. The tunable metamaterial integrates hard-Magnetic Active Elastomers (hMAEs) into the microstructural design combining snap-through, bi-stability, and local resonant effects. The proposed metamaterial design comprises resonating...