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  • Materials Science
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Physics

Background:

  • Mechanical metamaterials exhibit multistep responses via sequential buckling instabilities.
  • Uncontrolled imperfections often lead to random and unpredictable behavior in these systems.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To reprogram sequential buckling instabilities in kirigami-inspired soft magnetic metamaterials.
  • To achieve deterministic, multistep mechanical responses using magnetic interactions.

Main Methods:

  • Harnessing intra- and interlayer magnetic interactions coupled with elasticity.
  • Investigating single-layer and multilayer magnetic metamaterial assemblies.
  • Analyzing force-displacement responses and hysteresis.

Main Results:

  • Intralayer coupling in single-layer systems yields random snapping but nonlinear force-displacement responses with hysteresis.
  • Interlayer magnetic interactions in multilayer systems induce chain-reaction propagation, leading to directional snapping.
  • This magnetic control transforms random instabilities into robust, predictable behavior.

Conclusions:

  • A paradigm for deterministic, multistep mechanical responses in soft magnetic metamaterials is established.
  • The mechanism operates without the need for continuously applied fields.
  • Potential applications include energy dissipation, waveguiding, reconfigurable soft robotics, and biomedical devices.