Multistable locally resonant elastic metamaterial with tunable anisotropy
Siyu Ren, Yijun Chai, Xiongwei Yang · Springer Science and Business Media LLC · 2025
A novel multistable locally resonant elastic metamaterial with tunable anisotropy is proposed, showing potential for various applications.
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Key findings
- Proposed a novel multistable locally resonant elastic metamaterial.
- Exhibits four configurations with different bandgap ranges.
- Demonstrates tunable anisotropy in bandgap properties.
- Achieved a bandgap shifting ratio of 100%.
- Validated the feasibility of the multistable strategy through simulations.
What's new
Introduces a reversible multistable strategy in locally resonant elastic metamaterials with tunable anisotropic properties.
Limitations
The abstract does not provide details on practical applications or experimental validation beyond simulations.
Commercial context
The research is primarily theoretical and based on simulations, lacking experimental validation or commercial application.
Publication
- Publisher
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC
- Publication date
- September 1, 2025
- Research type
- Paper
- License
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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