References of Reconfigurable Mechanisms

Here are some interesting references on reconfigurable materials. I was lucky enough to attend a lecture delivered by Dr. Bas Overvelde. At the talk, it was the first time I heard the idea of “Architected Materials” which materials have mechanical properties base on how the voids are distributed in the solid. The “Reconfigurable Materials” are one of the sub-categories.

Here are the mind-blowing materials and mechanisms that I was witnessing.

Digging into the related research, I found the “Auxetic Materials” another sub-category of the architected materials. One of the study attracted my attention was the bi-stable mechanisms, which the expansion ratio can be designed.

Another noteworthy study let auxetic mechanisms can bend or twist while they shink.

Please let me know if you also know any interesting mechanisms related to my research.

Overvelde, J. T., Weaver, J. C., Hoberman, C., & Bertoldi, K. (2017). Rational design of reconfigurable prismatic architected materials. Nature, 541(7637), 347.

Rafsanjani, A., & Pasini, D. (2016). Bistable auxetic mechanical metamaterials inspired by ancient geometric motifs. Extreme Mechanics Letters, 9, 291-296.

Ou, J., Ma, Z., Peters, J., Dai, S., Vlavianos, N., & Ishii, H. (2018). KinetiX-designing auxetic-inspired deformable material structures. Computers & Graphics, 75, 72-81.