Grima JN, Mizzi L, Azzopardi KM, Gatt R. Auxetic Perforated Mechanical Metamaterials with Randomly Oriented Cuts.
ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2016;
28:385-389. [PMID:
26574739 DOI:
10.1002/adma.201503653]
[Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2015] [Revised: 09/10/2015] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
Abstract
Perforated systems with quasi-disordered arrays of slits are found to exhibit auxetic characteristics almost as much as their traditional ordered "rotating-squares" counterparts. This provides a highly robust methodology for constructing auxetics that may be used for various practical applications such as skin grafting, where a high degree of precision may not always be achievable.
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