Phase Transforming Cellular Materials (Spherical Shells)
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“Phase transforming cellular materials (PXCMs) are a class of materials whose unit cells exhibit multiple configurations (metastable or bistable) [1]. The geometrical structure of the PXCM can change to increase the energy absorbed. The hysteretic nature of the PXCM makes the potential application of these cellular materials extremely versatile”[1]. The objective was to be able to research within the 3D realm for the purpose of constructing a 3D PXCM.
A well known PXCM has a sinusoidal beam mechanism. During the summer the research group decided to test different geometries, in this case, shells were created with tennis balls.
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References
[1] D. Restrepo, N. D. Mankame, and P. D. Zavattieri. “Phase transforming cellular materials”. Extrem. Mech. Lett., vol. 4, pp. 52–60, 2015.
[2] M. Taffetani, X. Jiang, D.P. Holmes, D. Vella. “Static bistability of spherical caps”. Proc. R. Soc. A., vol. 474, 2018.
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