Hierarchical auxetic and isotropic porous medium with extremely negative Poisson's ratio
Abstract
We propose a novel two-dimensional hierarchical auxetic structure consisting of a porous medium in which a homogeneous matrix includes a rank-two set of cuts characterised by different scales. The six-fold symmetry of the perforations makes the medium isotropic in the plane. Remarkably, the mesoscale interaction between the first- and second-level cuts enables the attainment of a value of the Poisson's ratio close to the minimum reachable limit of -1. The effective properties of the hierarchical auxetic structure are determined numerically, considering both a unit cell with periodic boundary conditions and a finite structure containing a large number of repeating cells. Further, results of the numerical study are validated experimentally on a polymeric specimen with appropriately arranged rank-two cuts, tested under uniaxial tension. We envisage that the proposed hierarchical design can be useful in numerous engineering applications exploiting an extreme auxetic effect
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@article{arxiv.2210.12650,
title = {Hierarchical auxetic and isotropic porous medium with extremely negative Poisson's ratio},
author = {Maryam Morvaridi and Giorgio Carta and Federico Bosia and Antonio S. Gliozzi and Nicola M. Pugno and Diego Misseroni and Michele Brun},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.12650},
year = {2022}
}