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  • Materials Science
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Computational Design

Background:

  • Bistability in composite laminates allows for adaptive designs with tunable deflections.
  • Pre-strains during polymer matrix processing induce bistability, enabling reconfiguration between two stable shapes.
  • Designing these bistable laminates is complex due to their nonlinear behavior.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose a novel computational method for designing bistable composite laminates.
  • To overcome the challenges posed by the highly nonlinear behavior of these materials.
  • To enable inverse design for variable pre-strain fields and achieve complex curvatures.

Main Methods:

  • Introduction of the Switching Tunneling Method (STM).
  • STM alternates between gradient-based local minimization and tunneling search phases.
  • Objective expression switching is used to enhance numerical conditioning.

Main Results:

  • The STM demonstrates high effectiveness compared to existing optimizers.
  • Achieved a 99% success rate in finding all energy minima for general composite layups.
  • Enabled inverse design of variable pre-strain fields for bioinspired positive Gaussian curvatures.

Conclusions:

  • The STM is a highly effective method for designing bistable composite laminates.
  • The method facilitates the creation of complex curvatures not possible with conventional techniques.
  • Finite element analysis and 3D printed samples validated the optimal designs.