Extremely Deformable Structures

Abstract

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Elastica catastrophe machine: theory, design and experiments

“…The combination of the variable number of bifurcation points and the approximately unit value for the convex measure paves the way to realize very efficient snapping devices. Therefore, in addition to the interesting mechanical and mathematical features with reference to catastrophe theory in combination with snapping mechanisms [1,4,5,9,10,13,28,29,30], the proposed model may find application in the design of cycle mechanisms for actuation and dissipation devices towards energy harvesting, locomotion and wave mitigation [3,12,14,18,20,27,35].…”