Active Solids Model: Rigid Body Motion and Shape-changing Mechanisms
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| author | Hernández-López, Claudio Baconnier, Paul Coulais, Corentin Dauchot, Olivier Düring, Gustavo |
| author_facet | Hernández-López, Claudio Baconnier, Paul Coulais, Corentin Dauchot, Olivier Düring, Gustavo |
| contents | Active solids such as cell collectives, colloidal clusters, and active metamaterials exhibit diverse collective phenomena, ranging from rigid body motion to shape-changing mechanisms. The nonlinear dynamics of such active materials remains however poorly understood when they host zero-energy deformation modes and when noise is present. Here, we show that stress propagation in a model of active solids induces the spontaneous actuation of multiple soft floppy modes, even without exciting vibrational modes. By introducing an adiabatic approximation, we map the dynamics onto an effective Landau free energy, predicting mode selection and the onset of collective dynamics. These results open new ways to study and design living and robotic materials with multiple modes of locomotion and shape-change. |
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| spellingShingle | Active Solids Model: Rigid Body Motion and Shape-changing Mechanisms Hernández-López, Claudio Baconnier, Paul Coulais, Corentin Dauchot, Olivier Düring, Gustavo Soft Condensed Matter Active solids such as cell collectives, colloidal clusters, and active metamaterials exhibit diverse collective phenomena, ranging from rigid body motion to shape-changing mechanisms. The nonlinear dynamics of such active materials remains however poorly understood when they host zero-energy deformation modes and when noise is present. Here, we show that stress propagation in a model of active solids induces the spontaneous actuation of multiple soft floppy modes, even without exciting vibrational modes. By introducing an adiabatic approximation, we map the dynamics onto an effective Landau free energy, predicting mode selection and the onset of collective dynamics. These results open new ways to study and design living and robotic materials with multiple modes of locomotion and shape-change. |
| title | Active Solids Model: Rigid Body Motion and Shape-changing Mechanisms |
| topic | Soft Condensed Matter |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.12879 |