Extremely non-auxetic behavior of a typical auxetic microstructure due to its material properties

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The re-entrant honeycomb microstructure is one of the most famous, typical examples of an auxetic structure. The re-entrant geometries also include other members as, among others, the star re-entrant geometries with various symmetries. In this paper, we focus on one of them, having a 6-fold symmetry axis. The investigated systems consist of binary hard discs (two-dimensional particles with two slightly different sizes, interacting through infinitely repulsive pairwise potential), from which different structures, based on the mentioned geometry, were formed. To study the elastic properties of the systems, computer simulations using the Monte Carlo method in isobaric-isothermal ensemble with varying shape of the periodic box were performed. The results show that all the considered systems are isotropic and not auxetic—their Poisson’s ratio is positive in each case. Moreover, Poisson’s ratios of the majority of examined structures tend to +1 with increasing pressure, which is the upper limit for two-dimensional isotropic media, thus they can be recognized as the ideal non-auxetics in appropriate thermodynamic conditions. The results obtained contradict the common belief that the unique properties of metamaterials result solely from their microstructure and indicate that the material itself can be crucial.

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Bilski, M., Wojciechowski, K. W., Stręk, T., Kędziora, P., Grima-Cornish, J. N., & Dudek, M. R. (2021). Extremely non-auxetic behavior of a typical auxetic microstructure due to its material properties. Materials, 14(24). https://doi.org/10.3390/ma14247837

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