Vibration and Flutter of a Honeycomb Sandwich Plate with Zero Poisson’s Ratio
A honeycomb is a kind of excellent lightweight structure and a honeycomb sandwich plate with zero Poisson’s ratio (ZPR) core is used widely in morphing structures.
Junhua Zhang, Zhaochen Yan, Lili Xia
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Tunable Digital Material Properties of 3D Voxel Printers [PDF]
Digital materials are composed of many discrete voxels placed in a massively parallel layer deposition process, as opposed to continuous (analog) deposition techniques.
Hiller, Jonathan, Lipson, Hod
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Suppressing low-order eigenmodes with local control for deformable mirrors [PDF]
To improve the mechanical characteristics of actively controlled continuous faceplate deformable mirrors in adaptive optics, a strategy for reducing crosstalk between adjacent actuators and for suppressing low-order eigenmodes is proposed.
Andersen, Torben +4 more
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The fabrication and mechanical properties of a novel 3-component auxetic structure for composites [PDF]
Copyright © 2015 Elsevier. NOTICE: this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Composites Science and Technology. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural ...
Evans, Kenneth E. +2 more
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Review of the structural design and mechanical properties of metamaterials with negative Poisson’s ratio [PDF]
Metamaterials can break through the performance boundaries of traditional materials through artificial structure design, and show unique advantages in the fields of impact resistance, energy absorption and lightweight.
Boxing HOU +4 more
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It is controversial whether the plastic Poisson’s ratio and ellipticity are invariable in the Deshpande–Fleck model, which describes the constitutive behavior of foam materials.
Weimin Zhuang, Jian Sun, Dongxuan Xie
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Bending and benchmark of zero Poisson’s ratio cellular structures [PDF]
This work describes the bending performance of a zero Poisson’s ratio (ZPR) cellular structure made from the tessellation of hexagons and thin plates.
Huang, Jian +4 more
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Mechanics and force transmission in soft composites of rods in elastic gels [PDF]
We report detailed theoretical investigations of the micro-mechanics and bulk elastic properties of composites consisting of randomly distributed stiff fibers embedded in an elastic matrix in two and three dimensions.
A Björner +6 more
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Laser ultrasound measurement of diaphragm thickness, Young’s modulus and Poisson’s ratio in a MEMS device [PDF]
Laser-generated Lamb waves, coupled with a large bandwidth Michelson interferometer, have been demonstrated to accurately measure the thickness of a MEMS pressure sensor diaphragm in the [110] direction of a silicon wafer. Using the reassigned Gabor time-
Culshaw, Brian +2 more
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Design and Mechanical Properties of Negative Poisson’s Ratio Structure-Based Topology Optimization
Scholars have shown significant interest in the design and investigation of mechanical metamaterials with a negative Poisson’s ratio as a result of the rapid progress in additive manufacturing technology, giving rise to the concept of metamaterials.
Dongchen Qin +4 more
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