Knitting Multistability
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| author | Mahadevan, Kausalya Yuen, Michelle C. Farrell, David T. Walsh, Conor J. Sanchez, Vanessa Wood, Robert J. Bertoldi, Katia |
| author_facet | Mahadevan, Kausalya Yuen, Michelle C. Farrell, David T. Walsh, Conor J. Sanchez, Vanessa Wood, Robert J. Bertoldi, Katia |
| contents | Curved elastic shells can be fabricated through molding or by harnessing residual stresses. These shells often exhibit snap-through behavior and multistability when loaded. We present a unique way of fabricating curved elastic shells that exhibit multistability and snap-through behavior, weft-knitting. The knitting process introduces internal stresses into the textile sheet, which leads to complex 3D curvatures. We explore the relationship between the geometry and the mechanical response, identifying a parameter space where the textiles are multistable. We harness the snapping behavior and shape change through multistability to design soft conductive switches with built-in haptic feedback, and incorporate these textile switches into wearable devices. This work will allow us to harness the nonlinear mechanical behavior of textiles to create functional, soft, and seamless wearable devices. This includes but is not limited to the devices for additional cycling visibility and safety that we envision. |
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| spellingShingle | Knitting Multistability Mahadevan, Kausalya Yuen, Michelle C. Farrell, David T. Walsh, Conor J. Sanchez, Vanessa Wood, Robert J. Bertoldi, Katia Soft Condensed Matter Materials Science Curved elastic shells can be fabricated through molding or by harnessing residual stresses. These shells often exhibit snap-through behavior and multistability when loaded. We present a unique way of fabricating curved elastic shells that exhibit multistability and snap-through behavior, weft-knitting. The knitting process introduces internal stresses into the textile sheet, which leads to complex 3D curvatures. We explore the relationship between the geometry and the mechanical response, identifying a parameter space where the textiles are multistable. We harness the snapping behavior and shape change through multistability to design soft conductive switches with built-in haptic feedback, and incorporate these textile switches into wearable devices. This work will allow us to harness the nonlinear mechanical behavior of textiles to create functional, soft, and seamless wearable devices. This includes but is not limited to the devices for additional cycling visibility and safety that we envision. |
| title | Knitting Multistability |
| topic | Soft Condensed Matter Materials Science |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.14810 |