Publication

Oligomodal metamaterials with multifunctional mechanics

Aleksi Antoine Bossart
2021
Journal paper
Abstract

Mechanical metamaterials are artificial composites that exhibit a wide range of advanced functionalities such as negative Poisson's ratio, shape shifting, topological protection, multistability, extreme strength-to-density ratio, and enhanced energy dissipation. In particular, flexible metamaterials often harness zeroenergy deformation modes. To date, such flexible metamaterials have a single property, for example, a single shape change, or are pluripotent, that is, they can have many different responses, but typically require complex actuation protocols. Here, we introduce a class of oligomodal metamaterials that encode a few distinct properties that can be selectively controlled under uniaxial compression. To demonstrate this concept, we introduce a combinatorial design space containing various families of metamaterials. These families include monomodal (i.e., with a single zero-energy deformation mode); oligomodal (i.e., with a constant number of zero-energy deformation modes); and plurimodal (i.e., with many zero-energy deformation modes), whose number increases with system size. We then confirm the multifunctional nature of oligomodal metamaterials using both boundary textures and viscoelasticity. In particular, we realize a metamaterial that has a negative (positive) Poisson's ratio for low (high) compression rate over a finite range of strains. The ability of our oligomodal metamaterials to host multiple mechanical responses within a single structure paves the way toward multifunctional materials and devices.

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