English

Poisson's ratio and angle bending in spring networks

Soft Condensed Matter 2021-04-08 v1

Abstract

The Poisson's ratio of a spring network system has been shown to depend not only on the geometry but also on the relative strength of angle-bending forces in comparison to the bond-compression forces in the system. Here we derive the very simple analytic result that in systems where the spring interaction strength is equal to the bond-reorientation interaction, the Poisson's ratio identically goes to zero and is independent of the network geometry.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2104.03198,
  title  = {Poisson's ratio and angle bending in spring networks},
  author = {Nidhi Pashine and Daniel R. Reid and Meng Shen and Juan J. de Pablo and Sidney R. Nagel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.03198},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

3 pages, 2 figures

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