Elastic composite materials having a negative stiffness phase can be stable

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 98, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Drugan, W J ^a  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; DIMENSIONAL STABILITY; ELASTIC MODULI; ELASTICITY; ENCAPSULATION; STIFFNESS;

COMPOSITE GEOMETRIES; ISOTROPIC PHASE; TRACTION BOUNDARY CONDITIONS;

COMPOSITE MATERIALS;

EID: 33846702814     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.055502     Document Type: Article

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