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Stiffness tailoring in sinusoidal lattice structures through passive topology morphing using contact connections (2023)
Journal Article
Sundararaman, V., O'Donnell, M. P., Chenchiah, I. V., Clancy, G., & Weaver, P. M. (2023). Stiffness tailoring in sinusoidal lattice structures through passive topology morphing using contact connections. Materials and Design, 226, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matdes.2023.111649

Structures with adaptive stiffness characteristics present an opportunity to meet competing design requirements, thus achieving greater efficiency by the reconfiguration of their topology. Here, the potential of using changes in the topology of plana... Read More about Stiffness tailoring in sinusoidal lattice structures through passive topology morphing using contact connections.

From shear centre to eigenwrenches (2021)
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Stacey, J. P., O’Donnell, M. P., Kim, C. J., & Schenk, M. (2021). From shear centre to eigenwrenches. Thin-Walled Structures, 161, Article 107478. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tws.2021.107478

In the field of mechanism design, the behaviour of compliant shell mechanisms is commonly characterised via the eigenscrew decomposition of their spatial stiffness matrix. Recent developments have included the design of compliant shell mechanisms mad... Read More about From shear centre to eigenwrenches.

Exploring adaptive behavior of non-linear hexagonal frameworks (2020)
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O'Donnell, M. P., Towes, M., Groh, R. M. J., & Chenchiah, I. V. (2020). Exploring adaptive behavior of non-linear hexagonal frameworks. Frontiers in Materials, 7, 64. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmats.2020.00064

© Copyright © 2020 O'Donnell, Towes, Groh and Chenchiah. Non-linear structural responses offer a rich design space that can be integrated into the development of novel (meta)-materials to enable transformative capabilities. By exploiting robust, repe... Read More about Exploring adaptive behavior of non-linear hexagonal frameworks.

Reconsidering laminate nonsymmetry (2020)
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O’Donnell, M. P., & Weaver, P. M. (2020). Reconsidering laminate nonsymmetry. AIAA Journal, 58(4), 1811-1820. https://doi.org/10.2514/1.J058751

Nonsymmetric laminates are commonly precluded from composite design due to perceptions of reduced performance arising from in- and out-of-plane coupling. This coupling introduces warpage during cure—leading to raised stresses, together with diminishe... Read More about Reconsidering laminate nonsymmetry.

Bespoke extensional elasticity through helical lattice systems (2019)
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Dixon, M. D. X., O'Donnell, M. P., Pirrera, A., & Chenchiah, I. V. (2019). Bespoke extensional elasticity through helical lattice systems. Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 475(2232), https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2019.0547

© 2019 The Authors. Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited. Nonlinea... Read More about Bespoke extensional elasticity through helical lattice systems.

Multiscale tailoring of helical lattice systems for bespoke thermoelasticity (2019)
Journal Article
O’Donnell, M. P., Stacey, J. P., Chenchiah, I. V., & Pirrera, A. (2019). Multiscale tailoring of helical lattice systems for bespoke thermoelasticity. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 133, 103704. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmps.2019.103704

© 2019 (Meta-)Materials, e.g. functional or architectured materials that change shape in response to external stimuli, often do so by exploiting solid–solid phase transitions or concerted elastic deformations. For the resulting system to be effective... Read More about Multiscale tailoring of helical lattice systems for bespoke thermoelasticity.

Thermal prestress in composite compliant shell mechanisms (2019)
Journal Article
Stacey, J. P., O'Donnell, M. P., & Schenk, M. (2019). Thermal prestress in composite compliant shell mechanisms. Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics, 11(2), Article 020908. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4042476

This paper explores the ability to tailor the mechanical properties of composite compliant shell mechanisms, by exploiting the thermal prestress introduced during the composite laminate cure. An extension of an analytical tape spring model with compo... Read More about Thermal prestress in composite compliant shell mechanisms.

RAPID analysis of variable stiffness beams and plates: Legendre polynomial triple-product formulation (2017)
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O'Donnell, M. P., & Weaver, P. M. (2017). RAPID analysis of variable stiffness beams and plates: Legendre polynomial triple-product formulation. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 112(1), 86-100. https://doi.org/10.1002/nme.5528

Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Numerical integration techniques are commonly employed to formulate the system matrices encountered in the analysis of variable stiffness beams and plates using a Ritz based approach. Computing these integra... Read More about RAPID analysis of variable stiffness beams and plates: Legendre polynomial triple-product formulation.

Can tailored non-linearity of hierarchical structures inform future material development? (2016)
Journal Article
O'Donnell, M. P., Weaver, P. M., & Pirrera, A. (2016). Can tailored non-linearity of hierarchical structures inform future material development?. Extreme Mechanics Letters, 7, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eml.2016.01.006

© 2016 Elsevier Ltd. An analytical investigation into the non-linear elastic response of helical lattice structures coupled with an elastic medium is presented. Novel composite templates are then obtained to produce bespoke material characteristics b... Read More about Can tailored non-linearity of hierarchical structures inform future material development?.