On the auxetic properties of generic rotating rigid triangles

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 468, Issue 2139, 2012, Pages 810-830

  Grima, Joseph N ^a   Chetcuti, Elaine ^a   Manicaro, Elaine ^a   Attard, Daphne ^a   Camilleri, Matthew ^a   Gatt, Ruben ^a   Evans, Kenneth E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALTA   (Malta)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Analytical model; Auxetic; Foams; Negative Poisson's ratio; Relative surface density

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL MODELS; ENGINEERING; FOAMS; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING;

AUXETIC; AUXETIC FOAMS; GEOMETRIC FEATURE; NEGATIVE POISSON'S RATIOS; NEW MODEL; POISSON'S RATIO; RELATIVE SURFACE DENSITY; SURFACE DENSITY; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT; UNIAXIAL LOAD;

POISSON RATIO;

EID: 84858248056     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: 14712946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2011.0273     Document Type: Conference Paper

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