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SUBMITTER: Churchill CB
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4788489 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Churchill Christopher B CB Shahan David W DW Smith Sloan P SP Keefe Andrew C AC McKnight Geoffrey P GP
Science advances 20160219 2
Variable stiffness structures that enable a wide range of efficient load-bearing and dexterous activity are ubiquitous in mammalian musculoskeletal systems but are rare in engineered systems because of their complexity, power, and cost. We present a new negative stiffness-based load-bearing structure with dynamically tunable stiffness. Negative stiffness, traditionally used to achieve novel response from passive structures, is a powerful tool to achieve dynamic stiffness changes when configured ...[more]