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Computational discovery of microstructured composites with optimal stiffness-toughness trade-offs
The conflict between stiffness and toughness is a fundamental problem in engineering materials design. However, the systematic …
Beichen Li, Bolei Deng, Wan Shou, Tae-Hyun Oh, Yuanming Hu, Yiyue Luo, Liang Shi, Wojciech Matusik
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Nonlocal intrinsic fracture energy of polymerlike networks
Connecting polymer network fracture to molecular-level chain scission remains a quandary. While the Lake-Thomas model predicts the …
Bolei Deng, Shu Wang, Chase Hartquist, Xuanhe Zhao
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Drawing dispersion curves: band structure customization via nonlocal phononic crystals
Dispersion relations govern wave behaviors, and tailoring them is a grand challenge in wave manipulation. We demonstrate the inverse …
Arash Kazemi, Kshiteej J Deshmukh, Fei Chen, Yunya Liu, Bolei Deng, Henry Chien Fu, Pai Wang
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Procedural Metamaterials: A Unified Procedural Graph for Metamaterial Design
We introduce a compact, intuitive procedural graph representation for cellular metamaterials, which are small-scale, tileable …
Liane Makatura, Bohan Wang, Yi-Lu Chen, Bolei Deng, Chris Wojtan, Bernd Bickel, Wojciech Matusik
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Nonlinear waves at the free surface of flexible mechanical metamaterials
In this Letter, we investigate the propagation of nonlinear pulses along the free surface of flexible metamaterials based on the …
Bolei Deng, Hang Shu, Jian Li, Chengyang Mo, Jordan R Raney, Vincent Tournat, Katia Bertoldi
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Achieving any desirable dispersion curves using non-local phononic crystals
Phononic crystals and vibro-elastic metamaterials are characterized by their dispersion relations—how frequency changes with wave …
Arash Kazemi, Kshiteej Deshmukh, Fei Chen, Yunya Liu, Bolei Deng, Xuan Zhu, Henry Fu, Pai Wang
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Inerter-based elastic metamaterials for band gap at extremely low frequency
We reveal the unique and fundamental advantage of inerter-based elastic metamaterials by a comparative study among different …
Faisal Jamil, Fei Chen, Bolei Deng, Robert G Parker, Pai Wang
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Inverse Design of Mechanical Metamaterials with Target Nonlinear Response via a Neural Accelerated Evolution Strategy
Materials with target nonlinear mechanical response can support the design of innovative soft robots, wearable devices, footwear, and …
Bolei Deng, Ahmad Zareei, Xiaoxiao Ding, James C Weaver, Chris H Rycroft, Katia Bertoldi
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Inverse Design of Mechanical Metamaterials with Target Nonlinear Response via a Neural Accelerated Evolution Strategy
Self-regulated non-reciprocal motions in single-material microstructures
Living cilia stir, sweep and steer via swirling strokes of complex bending and twisting, paired with distinct reverse arcs. Efforts to …
Shucong Li, Michael M Lerch, James T Waters, Bolei Deng, Reese S Martens, Yuxing Yao, Do Yoon Kim, Katia Bertoldi, Alison Grinthal, Anna C Balazs, Joanna Aizenberg
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Topological solitons make metamaterials crawl
In recent years, the ability to propagate topological solitons in mechanical metamaterials has unlocked unpaved paths towards potential …
Bolei Deng#, Mohamed Zanaty#, Antonio E Forte, Katia Bertoldi
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