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Manufacture and characterisation of piezoelectric broadband energy harvesters based on asymmetric bistable cantilever laminates

In this paper a bistable asymmetric laminate is manufactured and coupled to a ferroelectric material for potential energy harvesting applications. A cantilever configuration is explored and the harvester response as a...

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Eversion of bistable shells under magnetic actuation
KA Seffen, S Vidoli
Apr 08, 2016
We model in closed form a proven bistable shell made from a magnetic rubber composite material. In particular, we incorporate a non-axisymmetrical displacement field, and we capture the nonlinear coupling between the actuated...
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Manufacture and characterisation of piezoelectric broadband energy harvesters based on asymmetric bistable cantilever laminates

In this paper a bistable asymmetric laminate is manufactured and coupled to a ferroelectric material for potential energy harvesting applications. A cantilever configuration is explored and the harvester response as a...

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On the shape of bistable creased strips
MG Walker, Keith A Seffen
Jul 10, 2018
We investigate the bistable behaviour of folded thin strips bent along their central crease. Making use of a simple Gauss mapping, we describe the kinematics of a hinge and facet model, which forms a discrete version of the...
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Perceptual memory drives learning of retinotopic biases for bistable stimuli.
The visual system exploits past experience at multiple timescales to resolve perceptual ambiguity in the retinal image. For example, perception of a bistable stimulus can be biased toward one interpretation over another when...
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