This book formulates and consolidates a coherent understanding of how harnessing the
dynamics of bistable structures may enhance the technical fields of vibration control, energy …

The design of architectured materials with bistable building blocks holds exciting
possibilities. This new class of metamaterials exploits micro-level structural instabilities to …

Inspired by the structure of proteins, designed by nature to function as nanoscale shock
absorbers, we propose the concept of harnessing structural instabilities to repeatedly filter …

A leading concept in soft robotics actuation, as well as in microfluidics applications such as
valves in lab-on-a-chip devices, is applying pressurized flow in cavities embedded within …

We study solitary waves in a one-dimensional lattice of identical masses that are connected
in series by nonlinear springs. The potential of each spring is nonconvex, where two disjoint …

The remarkable versatility and adaptability of skeletal muscle that arises from the assembly
of its nanoscale cross-bridges into micro-scale assemblies known as sarcomeres provides …

The theory, the design and the experimental validation of a catastrophe machine based on a
flexible element are addressed for the first time. A general theoretical framework is …

The thermodynamic properties of fluids play a crucial role in many engineering applications,
particularly in the context of energy. Fluids with multistable thermodynamic properties may …

We study the rate dependent response of a bistable chain subjected to thermal fluctuations.
The study is motivated by the fact that the behavior of this model system is prototypical to a …

Recent studies have demonstrated that the energetic vibrations of strategically designed
negative stiffness inclusions may lead to large and adaptable damping in structural/material …