Mechanical snap-through instability of bi-stable structures may find many practical applications such as state switching and energy transforming.Although there exist diverse bi-stable structures capable of snap-throug...Mechanical snap-through instability of bi-stable structures may find many practical applications such as state switching and energy transforming.Although there exist diverse bi-stable structures capable of snap-through instability,it is still difficult for a structure with high slenderness to undergo the axial snap-through instability with a large stroke.Here,an elastic structure with high slenderness is simply constructed by a finite number of identical,conventional bi-stable units with relatively low slenderness in series connection.For realizing the axial snap-through instability with a large stroke,common scissors mechanisms are further introduced as rigid constraints to guarantee the synchronous snap-through instability of these bi-stable units.The global feature of the large-stroke snap-through instability realized here is robust and even insusceptible to the local out-of-synchronization of individual units.The present design provides a simple and feasible way to achieve the large-stroke snap-through instability of slender structures,which is expected to be particularly useful for state switching and energy transforming in narrow spaces.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.11972027,12472093,and 11772272)the New Interdisciplinary Cultivation Fund of Southwest Jiaotong University(Grant No.2682022JX001)+1 种基金the Frontier Science and Technology Cultivation Project of Southwest Jiaotong University(Grant No.2682022KJ048)the Laboratory of Flexible Electronics Technology at Tsinghua University.
文摘Mechanical snap-through instability of bi-stable structures may find many practical applications such as state switching and energy transforming.Although there exist diverse bi-stable structures capable of snap-through instability,it is still difficult for a structure with high slenderness to undergo the axial snap-through instability with a large stroke.Here,an elastic structure with high slenderness is simply constructed by a finite number of identical,conventional bi-stable units with relatively low slenderness in series connection.For realizing the axial snap-through instability with a large stroke,common scissors mechanisms are further introduced as rigid constraints to guarantee the synchronous snap-through instability of these bi-stable units.The global feature of the large-stroke snap-through instability realized here is robust and even insusceptible to the local out-of-synchronization of individual units.The present design provides a simple and feasible way to achieve the large-stroke snap-through instability of slender structures,which is expected to be particularly useful for state switching and energy transforming in narrow spaces.
