Tailoring the multistability of origami-inspired, buckled magnetic structures via compression and creasing

Abstract

Origami-inspired multistable structures are gaining increasing interest because of their potential applications in fields ranging from deployable structures to reconfigurable microelectronics. The multistability of such structures is critical for their...

Finding transition state and minimum energy path of bistable elastic continua through energy landscape explorations

“…In addition, by integrating potential energies associated with other fields, our method should also be capable of solving multi-physics problems where the bistable structures are subjected to external stimuli such as magnetic fields (Y. Li et al, 2021aLi et al, , 2021b or differential swelling (Li et al, 2023). Such a characteristic enables the search for the energy barrier and transition path of bistable structures made of stimuli-responsive materials, which can facilitate their applications in controllable shape change (Ma et al, 2023;Shao et al, 2018;Zhao et al, 2016), fast actuation (Wani et al, 2017), etc.…”

“…To name a few, bistable structures can transform into new stable shapes that require no continuing energy input to maintain, thus being promising for many applications including energy-efficient morphing wings in aircraft (Arrieta et al, 2014;Boston et al, 2022;Diaconu et al, 2008;Mattioni et al, 2008;Rivas-Padilla et al, 2023), switches (Gomez et al, 2017a;Hou et al, 2018), logic units (Jiang et al, 2019;Meng et al, 2021;Pal and Sitti, 2023;Yan et al, 2023), grippers (C. Li et al, 2021;Power et al, 2023;Zhang et al, 2022), robots (Y. Li et al, 2021b), micro-electronics (Fu et al, 2018), origami-based structures (Dai et al, 2023;Faber et al, 2018;Fang et al, 2017;Li and Pellegrino, 2020;K. Liu et al, 2019;Lu et al, 2023c;Melancon et al, 2021;Silverberg et al, 2015;Yasuda and Yang, 2015) and valves (Preston et al, 2019;Qiao et al, 2021;Rothemund et al, 2018).…”