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cond-mat.soft2016★ 473 cited
Bistable Auxetic Mechanical Metamaterials Inspired by Ancient Geometric Motifs
Ahmad Rafsanjani, Damiano Pasini
Auxetic materials become thicker rather than thinner when stretched, exhibiting an unusual negative Poisson's ratio well suited for designing shape transforming metamaterials. Curr…
cond-mat.soft2016★ 456 cited
Snapping Mechanical Metamaterials under Tension
Ahmad Rafsanjani, Abdolhamid Akbarzadeh, Damiano Pasini
We present a monolithic mechanical metamaterial comprising a periodic arrangement of snapping units with tunable tensile behavior. Under tension, the metamaterial undergoes a large…