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A composite material with Poisson's ratio tunable from positive to negative values: an experimental and numerical study

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posted on 2017-06-30, 10:36 authored by Hong Hu, Vadim SilberschmidtVadim Silberschmidt, Xiaonan Hou
The Poisson’s ratio describes an extent of transverse deformation of a material when an axial strain is applied. A change of the Poisson’s ratio from positive to negative can equip a material with a set of specific properties. In this paper, a study of a composite material with a tunable Poisson’s ratio is presented. Samples of such a composite were first fabricated with two different polymers based on a composite structure proposed in our previous work using a multi-material additive-manufacturing system. Using both experimental and numerical methods, deformation mechanisms and mechanical properties of this composite material were analyzed. The obtained results demonstrate that its Poisson’s ratio can be reduced by increasing the difference in stiffness of constituent materials and turned from positive to negative when this difference is sufficiently high. Additionally, the study also validates a possible method to fabricate composites with designed structures and multi-constituent materials using additive-manufacturing techniques.

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  • Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering

Published in

Journal of Materials Science

Volume

49

Issue

1

Pages

461 - ?

Citation

HU, H., SILBERSCHMIDT, V. [and HOU, X.], 2013. A composite material with Poisson's ratio tunable from positive to negative values: an experimental and numerical study. Journal of Materials Science, 48 (24), pp.8493–8500.

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© Springer

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Publication date

2013

Notes

The final publication is available at Springer via: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10853-013-7666-1. Subsequent erratum says: "The name of Xiaonan Hou was omitted from the original article." See: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10853-013-7800-0.

ISSN

0022-2461

eISSN

1573-4803

Language

  • en

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