Pedro Miguel Nunes Pereira de Almeida Reis

Pedro M. Reis is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland, where he is the Director of the Institute of Mechanical Engineering. Prof. Reis received a B.Sc. in Physics from the University of Manchester, UK (1999), a Certificate of Advanced Studies in Mathematics (Part III Maths) from St. John’s College and DAMTP, University of Cambridge (2000), and a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Manchester (2004). He was a postdoc at the City College of New York (2004-2005) and at the CNRS/ESPCI in Paris (2005-2007). He joined MIT in 2007 as an Instructor in Applied Mathematics. In 2010 he moved to MIT’s School of Engineering, with dual appointments in Mechanical Engineering and Civil & Environmental Engineering, first as the Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Assistant Professor and, since the summer of 2014 as Gilbert W. Winslow Associate Professor. In October 2013, the Popular Science magazine named Prof. Reis to its 2013 “Brilliant 10” list of young stars in Science and Technology. He has received the 2014 CAREER Award (NSF), the 2016 Thomas J.R. Hughes Young Investigator Award (Applied Mechanics Division of the ASME), the 2016 GSOFT Early Career Award for Soft Matter Research (APS), he is a Fellow of the APS, and he is the 2021 President of the Society of Engineering Science (SES).

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A reduced-order, rotation-based model for thin hard-magnetic plates

Bastien Freddy Gustave Aymon, Pedro Miguel Nunes Pereira de Almeida Reis, Dong Yan

We develop a reduced-order model for thin plates made of hard magnetorheological elastomers (hard-MREs), which are composed of hard-magnetic particles embedded in a polymeric matrix. First, we propose a new magnetic potential, as an alternative to an existing torque-based 3D continuum theory of hard-MREs, obtained by reformulating the remnant magnetization of a deformed hard-MRE body. Specifically, the magnetizations in the initial and current configurations are related by the rotation tensor decomposed from the deformation gradi-ent, independently of stretching deformation, motivated by recently reported observations in microscopic homogenization simulations. Then, we derive a 2D plate model through the dimensional reduction of our proposed rotation-based 3D theory. For comparison, we also provide a second plate model derived from the existing 3D theory. Finally, we perform precision experiments to thoroughly evaluate the proposed 3D and 2D models on hard-magnetic plates under various magnetic and mechanical loading conditions. We demonstrate that our rotation -based modification of the magnetic potential is crucial in correctly capturing the behavior of plates subjected to an applied field aligned with the magnetization, and undergoing in-plane stretching. In all the tested cases, our rotation-based 3D and 2D models yield predictions in excellent quantitative agreement with the experiments and can thus serve as predictive tools for the rational design of hard-magnetic plate structures.

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Comparing the Buckling Strength of Spherical Shells With Dimpled Versus Bumpy Defects

Arefeh Abbasi, Fani Derveni, Pedro Miguel Nunes Pereira de Almeida Reis

We investigate the effect of defect geometry in dictating the sensitivity of the critical buckling conditions of spherical shells under external pressure loading. Specifically, we perform a comparative study between shells containing dimpled (inward) versus bumpy (outward) Gaussian defects. The former has become the standard shape in many recent shell-buckling studies, whereas the latter has remained mostly unexplored. We employ finite-element simulations, which were validated previously against experiments, to compute the knockdown factors for the two cases while systematically exploring the parameter space of the defect geometry. For the same magnitudes of the amplitude and angular width of the defect, we find that shells containing bumpy defects consistently exhibit significantly higher knockdown factors than shells with the more classic dimpled defects. Furthermore, the relationship of the knockdown as a function of the amplitude and the width of the defect is qualitatively different between the two cases, which also exhibit distinct post-buckling behavior. A speculative interpretation of the results is provided based on the qualitative differences in the mean-curvature profiles of the two cases.

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Indentation and stability of woven domes

Tian Chen, Pedro Miguel Nunes Pereira de Almeida Reis, Samuel Jean Bernard Poincloux, Tomohiko Sano, Célestin Vallat

Discrete domes are doubly curved structures comprising a network of beam-like elements. We study the mechanics of discrete domes made of ribbons woven in a pentagonal triaxial pattern. Experiments and finite element simulations are performed to characterize the mechanical response of each woven dome under indentation. The observed nonlinear response features force maxima, snap-through inversion, and non-monotonic evolution, leading to additional stable configurations. The dome's rest shape can be tuned continuously by designing the in-plane curvature of the ribbons and is then perturbed by adjustable clamped boundary conditions at their extremities. These control parameters are leveraged to smoothly and selectively modify the nonlinear features of the mechanical response, including multi-stability. Finally, we suggest a simplified model based on an elastica approximation to predict the stability of the inverted state successfully. The strong geometrical constraints imposed by the weaving pattern and the ribbons enable us to rationalize and tune the indentation response of these intriguing discrete structures. (c) 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

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