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This paper elaborates on a morphing bistable laminate-macro fiber composite (MFC) assembly with four simply-supported corners. The potential energy curve, featuring two wells and a barrier, is graphically depicted. Due to the added stiffness from the MFC, the two wells become asymmetric, significantly affecting snap-through actuation and dynamic behavior. The static snap-through, driven by a single MFC, is unidirectional unless MFCs are installed on both the upper and lower surfaces of the assembly. Under small excitation amplitudes, the dynamic regimes are governed by single-well vibrations, with frequency-amplitude response curves displaying linear characteristics corresponding to modes. As excitation amplitude increases, the response curves exhibit a softening nonlinear stiffness effect, with hysteresis apparent due to sweep directions. The snap-through regimes during forward frequency sweeps display limit-cycle oscillations and chaotic snap-through, while backward sweeps reveal limit-cycle oscillations, multi-period snap-through, and chaotic snap-through. The dynamic regimes correlate with mode frequencies, with chaotic snap-through occurring at or near the reduced resonance frequency. Limit-cycle oscillations during backward sweeps are observed near low and high mode frequencies on both sides of the reduced resonance frequency. The bandwidth of each dynamic regime expands with increased actuation amplitude. The MFC induces both transversal and parametric excitations, leading to deviations from conventional predictions where bistable structures are actuated solely by transversal excitations. © 2024 Elsevier Masson SAS
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Solids
ISSN: 0997-7538
Year: 2025
Volume: 111
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JCR@2022
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