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, , Citation Daniel Rayneau-Kirkhope and Marcelo A Dias 2017 Phys. World 30 (8) 25 DOI 10.1088/2058-7058/30/8/39

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1 Academy of Finland postdoctoral researcher at Aalto University, Finland, e-mail daniel.rayneau-kirkhope@aalto.fi

2 Asistant professor of physics at James Madison University in the US, e-mail diasma@jmu.edu

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Abstract

Engineers typically do all they can to stop structures from mechanically failing. But as Daniel Rayneau-Kirkhope and Marcelo A Dias explain, we can exploit such "elastic instability", with inspiration from nature

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