Role of friction and geometry in tuning the bending stiffness of topologically interlocking materials

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Acknowledgement

Part of this research was done at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), California Institute of Technology, USA, under contract with NASA (80NM0018D0004). This work was supported by the JPL Researchers on Campus program and Caltech President’s and JPL Director’s Research and Development Fund, USA. Reference herein to any specific commercial product, process, or service by trade name, trademark, manufacturer, or otherwise, does not constitute or imply its endorsement by the United States Government or the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology. J.E.A. and Z.Z. would like to acknowledge the support from the National Science Foundation (NSF), USA under award number CMMI-2033779, and the U.S. Army Research Office under grant number W911NF-19-1-0245.

Contributions

Tracy Lu: Writing – review & editing, Writing – original draft, Visualization, Validation, Supervision, Software, Resources, Project administration, Methodology, Investigation, Funding acquisition, Formal analysis, Data curation, Conceptualization. Ziran Zhou: Writing – review & editing, Writing – original draft, Visualization, Validation, Supervision, Software, Resources, Project administration, Methodology, Investigation, Funding acquisition, Formal analysis, Data curation, Conceptualization. Punnathat Bordeenithikasem: Writing – review & editing, Supervision, Resources, Funding acquisition. Norman Chung: Validation, Software, Investigation, Formal analysis, Data curation. Diana Frias Franco: Validation, Software, Investigation, Formal analysis, Data curation. Jose E. Andrade: Writing – review & editing, Supervision, Resources, Project administration, Funding acquisition. Chiara Daraio: Writing – review & editing, Supervision, Resources, Project administration, Funding acquisition, Conceptualization.

Conflict of Interest

The authors declare the following financial interests/personal relationships which may be considered as potential competing interests: Chiara Daraio reports financial support was provided by Meta. Jose Andrade reports financial support was provided by National Science Foundation. Jose Andrade reports was provided by US Army Research Office. Punnathat Bordeenithikasem reports financial support was provided by Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Chiara Daraio was previously an Associate Editor for Extreme Mechanics Letters. If there are other authors, they declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.