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Study on the Size Effect of Auxetic Cellular Materials
 
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Institute of Structural Mechanics, Cracow University of Technology, ul. Warszawska 24, 31-155, Kraków, Poland
 
 
Online publication date: 2017-09-09
 
 
Publication date: 2017-08-01
 
 
International Journal of Applied Mechanics and Engineering 2017;22(3):749-757
 
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The objective of this paper is to investigate the effects of scale of an auxetic cellular material sample on the evaluation of elastic properties. Size and boundary effects are studied in detail. This is achieved by conducting computer simulations of the auxetic structure under the typical loading exerted by the compression and simple shearing test performed by means of ABAQUS FEA. The material microstructure is discretized by the plane network of Timoshenko beam elements. The results of the studies give insight to the scale effects. Structures with designed properties can be potentially used for engineering applications.
 
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