Transient amplification of broken symmetry in elastic snap-through

• Main Authors: Wang, Qiong, Giudici, Andrea, Huang, Weicheng, Wang, Yuzhe, Liu, Mingchao, Tawfick, Sameh, Vella, Dominic
• Other Authors: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2024
• Subjects: Engineering; Asymmetric perturbations; Bistable structures
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/181369
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

A snap-through bifurcation occurs when a bistable structure loses one of its stable states and moves rapidly to the remaining state. For example, a buckled arch with symmetrically clamped ends can snap between an inverted and a natural state as the ends are released. A standard linear stability anal...