Multi-mechanism metamaterials study
Aleksi Bossart
Abstract:
Multi-mechanism metamaterials have received very little attention, in light of their potential usefulness for tailored mechanical responses. We investigate a class of multimodal mechanical metamaterials arising from tiling the plane with a single bimodal cell. We propose an alternative to the compatibility matrix description of the zero modes in the form of a combinatorial model based on the linearized geometric constraints. Using this model, we describe the rich mechanism phenomenology of our material. In particular, we present multimodal metamaterials with a number of zero modes that remains constant with increasing system size, as well as peculiar linearly decaying modes. We also present quasicrystals with a number of mechanisms increasing logarithmically with the perimeter. We plan to validate our predictions using a combination of finite-element simulations and elasticity experiments. Finally, we show that our approach is easily transposed to other primitive cells or to higher dimensions.
GAP, Département de physique Appliquée
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