Journal
MOLECULAR SIMULATION
Volume 31, Issue 13, Pages 925-935Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/08927020500401139
Keywords
auxetic; negative Poisson's ratio; stars; modelling; EMUDA
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Auxetic materials and structures exhibit the unexpected behaviour of getting wider when stretched and thinner when compressed. This behaviour requires the structures ( the internal structure in the case of materials) to have geometric features, which must deform in a way that results in the structure expanding when stretched. This paper assesses the potential for auxetic behaviour of a novel class of two-dimensional periodic structures which can be described as connected stars as they contain star-shaped units of different rotational symmetry which are connected together to form two-dimensional periodic structures. These structures will be studied through a technique based on force-field based methods ( the EMUDA technique) and it will be shown that some, but not all, of these structures can exhibit auxetic behaviour. An attempt is made to explain the reasons for the presence or absence of a negative Poisson's ratio in these systems.
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