In recent years, negative stiffness vibration isolation device with nonlinear characteristic has
become an emerging research area and attracted a significant amount of attentions in the …

Developing bistable metamaterials has recently offered a new design paradigm for
deployable structures and reusable dampers. While most bistable mechanisms possess …

Real-time tunable mechanical metamaterial is an emerging field attracting great attention. It
enables a wide range of mechanical properties but is hard to design and fabricate due to its …

Compared with traditional energy dissipation structures, negative stiffness metamaterials
can repeatedly dissipate energy without incurring irreversible plastic deformation. The …

A multi-step quasi-zero-stiffness metamaterial (MS-QZSM) is proposed, which exhibits
potential applications in various engineering scenarios, such as multi-vibration mitigation …

A metastructure consisting of numerous unit cells with quasi-zero stiffness property has been
designed and researched in this paper. The quasi-zero stiffness property is realized in each …

Negative stiffness mechanical metamaterials have shown great promise for various
applications and are progressing toward programmability. The key challenge in designing …

Negative stiffness mechanical metamaterial possesses many interesting properties but fairly
low strength. Introducing filler appears to be an effective strategy to enhance the cellular …

Multi-stable metastructures composed of curved beams can switch to a series of stable
configurations via elastic snap-through transitions. The elastic deformations allow …

An aircraft in practice serves under extreme flight conditions that will have a substantial
impact on its flight safety. Understanding dynamics of airfoil structure of an aircraft subjected …