Abstract: The buckling and postbuckling responses of viscoelasticlayered composites are investigated using finiteelement simulations. These composites consist of alternating layers of a stiff elastic constituent and of a soft ...

Abstract: The objective of the present work is to investigate the possibility of improving both stiffness and energy absorption in interlocking, architectured, brittle polymer blocks through hierarchical design. The interlocking ...

Abstract: The objective of the present work is to investigate the possibility of improving both stiffness and energy absorption in interlocking, architectured, brittle polymer blocks through hierarchical design. The interlocking ...

Abstract: Multistable mechanical metamaterials are materials that have multiple stable configurations. The geometrical changes caused by the transition of the metamaterial from one stable state to another, could be exploited to ...