Updated concrete construction robots are designed to optimize equipment operation,
improve safety, enhance workspace awareness, and further ensure a proper working …

Zero-stiffness structures have the remarkable ability to undergo large elastic deformations
without requiring external work. Several equivalent descriptions exist, such as (i) continuous …

Nonlinear structure design is an indispensable link in the development of vibration isolation,
energy harvesting and fault diagnosis technologies. It is also one of the most effective …

This paper presents an analysis of a magnetic levitation system for vibration isolation. A non-
dimensional analysis of the magnetic support is considered and it is shown analytically that …

The work describes the manufacturing, testing and parametric analysis of cellular structures
exhibiting zero Poisson's ratio-type behaviour, together with zero and negative stiffness …

In many engineering applications there is need to reduce the level of vibrations that are
transmitted from a source to a receiver. Amongst several different techniques, the most …

Robotic materials, with coupled sensing, actuation, computation, and communication, have
attracted increasing attention because they are able to not only tune their conventional …

Tension members with a zero rest length allow the construction of tensegrity structures that
are in equilibrium along a continuous path of configurations, and thus exhibit mechanism …

This paper proposes a foldable stair that can be deployed for use and folded for
conservation and investigates the geometry and statics of the structure. It not only has the …

A remarkable shell structure is described that, due to a particular combination of geometry
and initial stress, has zero stiffness for any finite deformation along a twisting path; the shell …