Novel rotational motion actuated beam-type multistable metastructures

Pan, Diankun, Xu, Yulong, Li, Wenbing and Wu, Zhangming ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7100-3282 2022. Novel rotational motion actuated beam-type multistable metastructures. Materials & Design 224 , 111309. 10.1016/j.matdes.2022.111309

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Abstract

This work aims to explore and design a family of multistable metastructures, which are actuated by rotational motion. The bi-stability design criteria for a single pre-shaped beam unit are studied firstly using an analytical model and finite element method. Based on this bi-stability study, a typical one-layer of this novel rotational motion actuated bistable structure, which is composed of four pre-shaped beams assembled uniformly inside two circular frames, is proposed and fabricated. The mechanical behaviour of this bistable structure represented in terms of moment-angle curves are analyzed by the finite element method and experiments. A parametric analysis is performed to study the influence of geometric parameters of an one-layer multistable metastructure on its bi-stability performance, which provides the guidance to design multistable structures with more layers. Lastly, multistable structures with two layers and three layers, which can achieve large rotations with controllable angle-step and snapping sequence, are designed and studied. Furthermore, this research demonstrates other as-fabricated beams with bi-stability have prospects to design the rotational multistable metastructures. The multistable metastructures proposed in this work create new opportunities to design advanced reconfigurable structures and devices.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Published Online
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > Engineering
Publisher:	Elsevier
ISSN:	0264-1275
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	28 November 2022
Date of Acceptance:	24 October 2022
Last Modified:	04 May 2023 06:45
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/154476

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