{"id":102172,"date":"2020-02-10T17:44:46","date_gmt":"2020-02-11T01:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/researchers-use-models-and-experiments-to-guide-and-harness-transition-waves-in-multi-stable-mechanical-structures"},"modified":"2020-02-10T17:44:46","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T01:44:46","slug":"researchers-use-models-and-experiments-to-guide-and-harness-transition-waves-in-multi-stable-mechanical-structures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/researchers-use-models-and-experiments-to-guide-and-harness-transition-waves-in-multi-stable-mechanical-structures","title":{"rendered":"Researchers use models and experiments to guide and harness transition waves in multi-stable mechanical structures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-use-models-and-experiments-to-guide-and-harness-transition-waves-in-multi-stable-mechanical-structures3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019ve ever opened an umbrella or set up a folding chair, you\u2019ve used a deployable structure\u2014an object that can transition from a compact state to an expanded one. You\u2019ve probably noticed that such structures usually require rather complicated locking mechanisms to hold them in place. And, if you\u2019ve ever tried to open an umbrella in the wind or fold a particularly persnickety folding chair, you know that today\u2019s deployable structures aren\u2019t always reliable or autonomous.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a team of researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have harnessed the <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/domino+effect\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">domino effect<\/a> to design deployable systems that expand quickly with a small push and are stable and locked into place after deployment.<\/p>\n<p>The research is published in the <i>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/i> (<i>PNAS<\/i>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019ve ever opened an umbrella or set up a folding chair, you\u2019ve used a deployable structure\u2014an object that can transition from a compact state to an expanded one. You\u2019ve probably noticed that such structures usually require rather complicated locking mechanisms to hold them in place. And, if you\u2019ve ever tried to open an umbrella [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}