Advanced Materials, Vol.27, No.39, 5931-5935, 2015
Snapping Mechanical Metamaterials under Tension
A snapping mechanical metamaterial is designed, which exhibits a sequential snap-through behavior under tension. The tensile response of this mechanical metamaterial can be altered by tuning the architecture of the snapping segments to achieve a range of nonlinear mechanical responses, including monotonic, S-shaped, plateau, and nonmonotonic snap-through behavior.