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Micromechanical Models for Auxetic Materials

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Auxetic Materials and Structures

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This chapter provides a survey of micromechanical models that seek to predict and explain auxetic behavior, based on re-entrant microstructures, nodule-fibril microstructure, 3D tethered-nodule model, rotating squares , rectangles, triangles and tetrahedrals models, hard cyclic hexamers model, missing rib models , chiral and anti-chiral models, interlocking hexagon model , and the “egg rack” model. All the micromechanical models exhibit a common trait—auxeticity is highly dependent on the microstructural geometry. In some of the micromechanical geometries, comparisons between analytical results have been made with experimental or computational results.

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Lim, TC. (2015). Micromechanical Models for Auxetic Materials. In: Auxetic Materials and Structures. Engineering Materials. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-275-3_2

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