Mechanical Metamaterial-Based Structure with Magnetically Controlled Nonreversibility and Nonreciprocity for Programmable Locomotion.

ABSTRACT: Programmable mechanical metamaterials hold the key to critical innovations in materials science research, by harnessing relatively unexplored nonlinearities that change effective responses. Effective properties of a metamaterial strongly depend on the reversibility of the deformation process. While most elastic materials show reciprocity and reversibility, the possibility of concurrently observing nonreciprocity, defined as a deformation that is not mirrored when a body is loaded equally from opposite sides, as well as a nonreversible deformation process, opens doors to addressing complex mechanical problems that are crucial from the perspective of soft body dynamics. In this work, a magneto-mechanical metamaterial-based structure is proposed that simultaneously exhibits both of these phen

SUBMITTER: Dudek KK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12407254 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature