Potential well evolution and metastable dynamics of bistable asymmetric laminated composite square shallow shell under external and parametric excitations

T Liu, W Zhang, Y Zheng, YF Zhang, W Zhao - Composite Structures, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper studies the occurrence conditions of the metastable chaos by analyzing the
potential well evolution from the double potential wells to triple potential wells in the bistable …

Explainable artificial intelligence to investigate the contribution of design variables to the static characteristics of bistable composite laminates

S Saberi, H Nasiri, O Ghorbani, MI Friswell, SGP Castro - Materials, 2023 - mdpi.com
Material properties, geometrical dimensions, and environmental conditions can greatly
influence the characteristics of bistable composite laminates. In the current work, to …

Bistable composites with intrinsic pneumatic actuation and non-cylindrical curved shapes

Z Xu, Y Zhou - Materials Letters, 2024 - Elsevier
This study presents a novel mechanically-prestressed laminate with non-cylindrical shapes
and pneumatic actuation. A third-order analytical model is proposed to determine the …

Analysis and experiments of bi-stable laminate configuration control based on MFC piezoelectric actuation

Y Jiang, L Yang, C Li, X Miao - Composite Structures, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper studies the configuration change control and the snap-through phenomenon of bi-
stable laminate with the MFC piezoelectric plate. The kinetic and potential energy …

Soft Pneumatic Helical Actuators With Programmable Variable Curvatures

Z Xu, J Liang, Y Zhou - IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This letter proposes novel variable-curvature soft helical actuators (VC-SHAs) using fluidic
prestressed composites (FPCs) for enhanced grasping performance. A third-order three …

[DOC][DOC] SEMC-B F-whole-B PEMC-B F-channel-B F-ribs-B

Z Xu, Y Zhou - researchgate.net
Because the prestressed EMCs can experience large prestrain, strain energy in them is
expressed in an empirical form in terms of the EMCs' strain. An empirical nonlinear …