Circuit Analogies in the Search for New Metamaterials: Phenomenology of a Mechanical Diode

Spagnuolo M.

2020-01-01

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Abstract

The pantographic metamaterial, a particular metamaterial, composed of two orthogonal families of fibers, with remarkable deformation properties, presents, in case the interconnections between the two layers of fibers are perfect hinges, a mechanical response that recalls by analogy the law characteristic of diodes, in the theory of electrical circuits. In this sense, the pantographic metamaterial represents a sort of mechanical diode.