A review on bistable composite laminates for aerospace applications

DM Lemos, FD Marques, AJM Ferreira - Composite Structures, 2024 - Elsevier
Bistable laminates have attracted considerable interest among researchers as prospective
candidates for delivering exceptional performance within the domain of morphing structures …

A Review of the Dynamic Behavior of Thermally Induced Bistable Configurations of Unsymmetrical Composite Laminates and their Applications

D Bashir, PM Anilkumar, S Scheffler, A Haldar… - … Methods in Engineering, 2024 - Springer
Multistable structures are extensively researched due to their adaptability across various
operational conditions. A basic class of these multistable structures can be bistable …

Dynamic Snap-Through and nonlinear vibrations of bistable asymmetric Cross-Ply composite laminated cantilever shell under external excitation

LL Ren, W Zhang, YF Zhang - Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 2023 - Elsevier
The bistable asymmetric composite laminated structures have the broad applications in the
design of the deformable aircrafts and energy harvester due to the unique nonlinear …

Negative stiffness and buffering characteristics analysis of bistable laminates with initial curing curvature

M Sun, K Zhang, Y Chen, Z Zhang, H Chai, G Zhang… - Composite …, 2023 - Elsevier
In this study, the influence of initial curing curvature on the negative stiffness and buffering
characteristics of bistable laminates was analyzed. The geometric parameters and …

Tunable negative stiffness spring using maxwell normal stress

S Yuan, Y Sun, M Wang, J Ding, J Zhao… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
A vibration isolator based on a tunable negative stiffness mechanism combines the
advantages of high-static-low-dynamic stiffness (HSLDS) isolators to expand the isolation …

[HTML][HTML] Experimental nonlinear dynamic regimes for energy harvesting from cantilever bistable shells

A Mitura, M Brunetti, L Kloda, F Romeo… - Mechanical Systems and …, 2024 - Elsevier
An experimental campaign on a cantilever composite bistable shell with a piezoelectric
patch is reported in the paper. The considered shell is characterized by two stable …

Soybean-inspired nanomaterial-based broadband piezoelectric energy harvester with local bistability

F Hao, B Wang, X Wang, T Tang, Y Li, Z Yang, J Lu - Nano Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Bistable nonlinear energy harvesters are effective structures for scavenging broadband
energy from frequency-varying vibration sources. The bistable characteristic of such …

Nonlinear dynamic buckling and vibration of thermally post-buckled temperature-dependent FG porous nanobeams based on the nonlocal theory

E Salari, AR Ashoori, SAS Vanini… - Physica Scripta, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
In this paper, nonlinear dynamic snap-through buckling and vibration behavior of the
thermally post-buckled functionally graded (FG) porous nanobeams subjected to static and …

Nonlinear dynamic modeling of bistable variable stiffness composite laminates

PM Anilkumar, S Scheffler, A Haldar, M Brod… - Journal of Sound and …, 2023 - Elsevier
The room-temperature equilibrium stable states of cured unsymmetric composite laminates
have been the focus of recent research, with a particular emphasis on shape morphing …

Electromechanical modelling of a bistable plate with macro fiber composites under nonlinear vibrations

AJ Lee, DJ Inman - Journal of Sound and Vibration, 2019 - Elsevier
Vibrational broadband energy harvesting has been the most focused application of bistable
composite plates paired with piezoelectric materials due to their wide array of nonlinear …