Publications

2025Selected work

International Journal of Mechanical Sciences

Inverse design of programmable shape-morphing kirigami structures

Xiaoyuan Ying, Dilum Fernando, Marcelo A. Dias

International Journal of Mechanical Sciences 286, 109840 · 2025

Geometric optimisation and finite element analysis connect prescribed deployed shapes with the mechanical response of fabricated kirigami structures.

Paper Code

BibTeX

@article{ying2025inverse,
  title={Inverse design of programmable shape-morphing kirigami structures},
  author={Ying, Xiaoyuan and Fernando, Dilum and Dias, Marcelo A.},
  journal={International Journal of Mechanical Sciences},
  volume={286},
  pages={109840},
  year={2025},
  doi={10.1016/j.ijmecsci.2024.109840}
}

2026Under review

Manuscript under review

Instability-induced bistable shape-morphing kirigami structures

Xiaoyuan Ying, Marcelo A. Dias

arXiv:2607.26941 · July 2026

Designing the local energy landscape of kirigami units to create curved structures that retain a deployed configuration.

arXiv preprint Illustrated note Code

BibTeX

@misc{ying2026instability,
  title={Instability-induced bistable shape-morphing kirigami structures},
  author={Ying, Xiaoyuan and Dias, Marcelo A.},
  year={2026},
  eprint={2607.26941},
  archivePrefix={arXiv},
  doi={10.48550/arXiv.2607.26941},
  note={Under review; preprint available on arXiv}
}

2024

Structures

An adaptive suspended-dome structure: Static control methods based on minimum strain energy

Yanbin Shen, Xuanhe Zhang, Wucheng Xu, Xiaoyuan Ying, Ziyu Tu, Yaozhi Luo

Structures 67, 106999 · 2024

Paper

BibTeX

@article{shen2024adaptive,
  title={An adaptive suspended-dome structure: Static control methods based on minimum strain energy},
  author={Shen, Yanbin and Zhang, Xuanhe and Xu, Wucheng and Ying, Xiaoyuan and Tu, Ziyu and Luo, Yaozhi},
  journal={Structures},
  volume={67},
  pages={106999},
  year={2024},
  doi={10.1016/j.istruc.2024.106999}
}

2022

Journal of Zhejiang University-SCIENCE A

Static control method using gradient–genetic algorithm for grillage adaptive beam string structures based on minimal internal force

Yan-bin Shen, Hao-song Sun, An-dong Lei, Xiao-yuan Ying, Guang Yang, Yaozhi Luo

Journal of Zhejiang University-SCIENCE A 23(9), 721–732 · 2022

Paper

BibTeX

@article{shen2022static,
  title={Static control method using gradient--genetic algorithm for grillage adaptive beam string structures based on minimal internal force},
  author={Shen, Yan-bin and Sun, Hao-song and Lei, An-dong and Ying, Xiao-yuan and Yang, Guang and Luo, Yao-zhi},
  journal={Journal of Zhejiang University-SCIENCE A},
  volume={23},
  number={9},
  pages={721--732},
  year={2022},
  doi={10.1631/jzus.A2200003}
}