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22 Citations
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Impact Response of the Honeycomb Sandwich Structure with Different Poisson’s Ratios

  • Xiaobo Gong,
  • Chengwei Ren,
  • Yuhong Liu,
  • Jian Sun and
  • Fang Xie

8 October 2022

The honeycomb sandwich structure is widely used in energy-absorbing facilities because it is lightweight, has a high specific stiffness and high specific strength, and is easy to process. It also has dynamic mechanical characteristics such as a high...

  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
6,808 Views
15 Pages

3 July 2020

Mechanical metamaterials have attracted significant attention due to their programmable internal structure and extraordinary mechanical properties. However, most of them are still in their prototype stage without direct applications. This research de...

  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,500 Views
28 Pages

28 April 2023

The mechanical properties of the dental filling material (DFMs) strongly influence the lifetime and durability of the tooth reparation performed. Among the most significant mechanical characteristics, one has to mention the Poisson’s ratio and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
80 Citations
6,957 Views
11 Pages

Poisson’s Ratio of Closed-Cell Aluminium Foams

  • Jaroslav Kováčik,
  • Liviu Marsavina and
  • Emanoil Linul

7 October 2018

A nondestructive impulse excitation technique was used to investigate Poisson’s ratio of powder metallurgical pure closed-cell aluminium foams according to ASTM E 1876 within the foam density range of 0.430–1.390 g·cm−3. Inst...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,663 Views
9 Pages

17 June 2021

A chiral structure with a negative Poisson’s ratio containing a hollow circle with varying diameters was designed, and the finite element method was used to investigate the variation in the Poisson’s ratio when the hollow circle diameter was varied (...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,067 Views
21 Pages

Extreme Poisson’s Ratios of Honeycomb, Re-Entrant, and Zig-Zag Crystals of Binary Hard Discs

  • Mikołaj Bilski,
  • Paweł M. Pigłowski and
  • Krzysztof W. Wojciechowski

24 June 2021

Two-dimensional (2D) crystalline structures based on a honeycomb geometry are analyzed by computer simulations using the Monte Carlo method in the isobaric-isothermal ensemble. The considered crystals are formed by hard discs (HD) of two different di...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
607 Views
11 Pages

15 August 2025

In this paper, the Poisson’s ratio of black phosphorene nanotubes was examined through the molecular dynamics simulation method. Our research discovered that for the armchair black phosphorene nanotubes, the radial strain and the wall thickness...

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  • Open Access
22 Citations
3,711 Views
16 Pages

8 October 2021

A honeycomb is a kind of excellent lightweight structure and a honeycomb sandwich plate with zero Poisson’s ratio (ZPR) core is used widely in morphing structures. In this paper, a sandwich plate composed of a honeycomb core with zero Poisson’s ratio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,907 Views
16 Pages

Experimental Study on Poisson’s Ratio of Silty-Fine Sand with Saturation

  • Kai Yan,
  • Yong Wang,
  • Xianghua Lai,
  • Yanli Wang and
  • Zhiyong Yang

16 February 2023

The influence of saturation on the Poisson’s ratio v of reservoir sediments has an engineering significance in the field of oil and nature gas exploration. Based on a self-developed combined (BE-EE-RC) test system, under the dehydration path, t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,685 Views
17 Pages

Research on the Mechanical Properties of Elliptical Negative Poisson’s Ratio Structures

  • Ming Xie,
  • Xiangdong Wu,
  • Fangbo Xu,
  • Zhangdong Wang,
  • Li’e Yin and
  • Mengqi Xu

13 December 2024

A negative Poisson’s ratio structure has special deformation behavior and energy absorption characteristics, and is a new structure with broad application prospects. However, most of the current research is still at the micro theoretical level,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
3,315 Views
17 Pages

25 May 2023

A negative Poisson’s ratio honeycomb material has the characteristics of anti-conventional deformation behavior and high impact resistance, which is a new lightweight microstructure material with broad application prospects. However, most of th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,402 Views
16 Pages

The Young’s Modulus and Poisson’s Ratio of Hard Coals in Laboratory Tests

  • Mirosława Bukowska,
  • Piotr Kasza,
  • Rafał Moska and
  • Janusz Jureczka

28 March 2022

The Young’s modulus and Poisson’s ratio, parameters reflecting the elastic response of a rock to stress, are the key parameters used in many engineering activities, such as hard coal mining and natural gas extraction. The objective of thi...

  • Letter
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,272 Views
8 Pages

28 March 2019

We report that carbon honeycomb, a new three-dimension carbon allotrope, exhibits large negative Poisson’s ratio, as large as −0.32, in tensile revealed via molecular dynamics simulations. The Poisson’s ratio of carbon honeycomb is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,875 Views
25 Pages

Design and Mechanical Properties of Negative Poisson’s Ratio Structure-Based Topology Optimization

  • Dongchen Qin,
  • Mengchun Li,
  • Tingting Wang,
  • Jiangyi Chen and
  • Hongxia Wu

29 June 2023

Scholars have shown significant interest in the design and investigation of mechanical metamaterials with a negative Poisson’s ratio as a result of the rapid progress in additive manufacturing technology, giving rise to the concept of metamater...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,194 Views
16 Pages

Setting Times of Early-Age Mortars Determined from Evolution Curves of Poisson’s Ratio

  • Bate Bate,
  • Xiao Chen,
  • Chao Chen,
  • Hongyan Ma,
  • Jianfeng Zhu,
  • Junnan Cao,
  • Jiakai Chen,
  • Kamal H. Khayat and
  • Shuai Zhang

23 January 2022

Setting times, as the early-age properties of cement-based materials, are important properties to ensure the quality and long-term performance of engineering structures. To determine the initial and final setting times of cementitious materials, the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,430 Views
13 Pages

10 March 2023

Low-carbon hot-rolled steel generally undergoes a deformation process composed of four phases, i.e., elastic deformation, discontinuous yielding, work hardening, and macroscopic plastic-strain localization in a tension test. The evolution of the Pois...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,839 Views
13 Pages

Inversion Method of the Young’s Modulus Field and Poisson’s Ratio Field for Rock and Its Test Application

  • Yanchun Yin,
  • Guangyan Liu,
  • Tongbin Zhao,
  • Qinwei Ma,
  • Lu Wang and
  • Yubao Zhang

8 August 2022

As one typical heterogeneous material, the heterogeneity of rock micro parameters has an important effect on its macro mechanical behavior. The study of the heterogeneity of micro parameters is more important to reveal the root cause of deformation a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,953 Views
41 Pages

25 November 2021

This paper mainly studies the vibration isolation of negative Poisson’s ratio structure in the honeycomb base of ships. Based on the structure of the negative Poisson’s ratio structure, different laying methods and different cell structur...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
5,479 Views
12 Pages

Microfluidic In-Situ Measurement of Poisson’s Ratio of Hydrogels

  • Jean Cappello,
  • Vincent d’Herbemont,
  • Anke Lindner and
  • Olivia du Roure

19 March 2020

Being able to precisely characterize the mechanical properties of soft microparticles is essential for numerous situations, from the understanding of the flow of biological fluids to the development of soft micro-robots. Here, we present a simple mea...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,244 Views
16 Pages

17 June 2025

This article considers the effect of constant and variable Poisson’s ratio on cracking in concrete and rock specimens under uniaxial compression using mechanical systems modeling methods. The article presents an analysis of the data confirming...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
8,807 Views
10 Pages

Dynamic mechanical analysis (DMA) is the usual technology for the thermomechanical viscoelastic characterization of materials. This method monitors the instant values of load and displacement to determine the instant specimen stiffness. Posteriorly,...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
3,543 Views
14 Pages

TiNi Alloy Lattice Structures with Negative Poisson’s Ratio: Computer Simulation and Experimental Results

  • Eduard Farber,
  • Alexey Orlov,
  • Evgenii Borisov,
  • Arseniy Repnin,
  • Stepan Kuzin,
  • Nikita Golubkov and
  • Anatoly Popovich

4 September 2022

One of the issues that modern implants face is their high stiffness, coupled with a positive Poisson’s ratio along the implant. This creates certain problems with bone inflammation and implant detachment. A possible solution to these problems i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,905 Views
18 Pages

29 November 2023

In this paper, the negative Poisson’s ratio and rigidity of a protective structure are improved to allow the structure to exert a negative Poisson’s ratio effect in multiple directions and to enhance the structural load-carrying capacity....

  • Article
  • Open Access
84 Citations
10,275 Views
20 Pages

27 June 2018

The weak stiffness and strength of materials with negative Poisson’s ratio limits their application. In this paper, three types of novel lattices with negative Poisson’s ratio are proposed to improve not only stiffness and strength but also energy ab...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,039 Views
23 Pages

30 June 2022

Negative Poisson’s ratio materials are increasingly used in the design of vibration isolation bases due to their unique tensile properties. In this paper, based on the expansion feature of the negative Poisson’s ratio re-entrant structure...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,658 Views
14 Pages

An Experimental Study of Axial Poisson’s Ratio and Axial Young’s Modulus Determination of Potato Stems Using Image Processing

  • Jiali Fan,
  • Yuyao Li,
  • Bing Wang,
  • Fengwei Gu,
  • Feng Wu,
  • Hongguang Yang,
  • Zhaoyang Yu and
  • Zhichao Hu

Potato stems removal is an important part of mechanized potato harvesting. However, there is still limited research on the physical properties of potato stems, especially the determination of Poisson’s ratio and Young’s modulus. This stud...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,887 Views
22 Pages

The current design of negative Poisson’s ratio lattice structures is mainly forward-looking and predominantly dependent on several known deformation patterns. To automate the generation of structures with programmable Poisson’s ratio, the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,867 Views
17 Pages

7 March 2019

In this paper, the exact solution of the Timoshenko circular beam vibration frequency equation under free-free boundary conditions was determined with an accurate shear shape factor. The exact solution was compared with a 3-D finite element calculati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
4,573 Views
18 Pages

Revisiting the Dependence of Poisson’s Ratio on Liquid Fragility and Atomic Packing Density in Oxide Glasses

  • Martin B. Østergaard,
  • Søren R. Hansen,
  • Kacper Januchta,
  • Theany To,
  • Sylwester J. Rzoska,
  • Michal Bockowski,
  • Mathieu Bauchy and
  • Morten M. Smedskjaer

31 July 2019

Poisson’s ratio (ν) defines a material’s propensity to laterally expand upon compression, or laterally shrink upon tension for non-auxetic materials. This fundamental metric has traditionally, in some fields, been assumed to be a mater...

  • Article
  • Open Access
53 Citations
7,041 Views
18 Pages

Mechanical Metamaterials Foams with Tunable Negative Poisson’s Ratio for Enhanced Energy Absorption and Damage Resistance

  • Shaohua Cui,
  • Baoming Gong,
  • Qian Ding,
  • Yongtao Sun,
  • Fuguang Ren,
  • Xiuguo Liu,
  • Qun Yan,
  • Hai Yang,
  • Xin Wang and
  • Bowen Song

1 October 2018

Systematic and deep understanding of mechanical properties of the negative Poisson’s ratio convex-concave foams plays a very important role for their practical engineering applications. However, in the open literature, only a negative Poisson&r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,455 Views
18 Pages

20 April 2023

Metallic wire mesh has gained attention as a potential material for lightweight aircraft structures, e.g., a metallic frame of morphing wings, due to its customizable mechanical properties associated with cell structures. However, the relationship be...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
6,458 Views
11 Pages

6 May 2021

Thermoplastic polyurethanes (TPUs) and other elastomers are widely used in many applications for the advantages they provide in terms of high elasticity, lightness, resistance to breakage, and impact resistance. These materials exhibit strong hystere...

  • Article
  • Open Access
796 Views
22 Pages

Sulphoaluminate-Aluminate Cement-Based Composites: Mechanical Behaviors and Negative Poisson’s Ratio Mechanism Under Static Loads

  • Qin Chang,
  • Peng Wang,
  • Yanxuan Ma,
  • Zhipeng Zhang,
  • Stroev Dmitry Alexandrovich,
  • Jin Liu,
  • Fei Zhao and
  • Pengfei Zhu

10 April 2025

Because of their excellent properties, calcium aluminate cement (CAC) and sulphoaluminate cement (SAC), as building materials, have been used in infrastructure construction. However, due to the defects in microstructure, their application and develop...

  • Article
  • Open Access
911 Views
25 Pages

22 August 2025

The negative Poisson’s ratio structure has special deformation behavior and energy absorption characteristics and is a new structure with broad application prospects. However, most of the current research is still at the theoretical level, whil...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
3,711 Views
17 Pages

3D Zero Poisson’s Ratio Honeycomb Structure for Morphing Wing Applications

  • Xiaobo Gong,
  • Chengwei Ren,
  • Jian Sun,
  • Peiru Zhang,
  • Lei Du and
  • Fang Xie

Such as flying creatures, morphing aircraft can expand their aerodynamic flight envelopes by changing aerodynamic shapes, significantly improving the scope of application and flight efficiency. A novel 3D Zero Poisson’s Ratio (ZPR) honeycomb st...

  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
4,920 Views
18 Pages

28 February 2021

In this study, nanocellulose aerogels with a tunable Poisson’s ratio were fabricated. Tissue engineering scaffolds with a tunable Poisson’s ratio may be better able to simulate the mechanical behavior of natural tissues. A mixture of cellulose nanofi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
236 Views
17 Pages

9 January 2026

This study proposes a novel four-pointed-star-shaped honeycomb structure having zero Poisson’s ratio, designed to overcome the stress concentration inherent in traditional point-to-point connected star-shaped honeycombs.By introducing a horizon...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
14,599 Views
12 Pages

Efficient Poisson’s Ratio Evaluation of Weft-Knitted Auxetic Metamaterials

  • Kun Luan,
  • Zoe Newman,
  • Andre West,
  • Kuan-Lin Lee and
  • Srujan Rokkam

4 July 2023

Auxetic metamaterials expand transversely when stretched longitudinally or contract transversely when compressed, resulting in a negative Poisson’s ratio (NPR). Auxetic fabrics are 3D textile metamaterials possessing a unique geometry that can...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
3,031 Views
15 Pages

18 July 2022

Laser additive manufacturing (LAM) of complex-shaped metallic components offers great potential for fabricating customized endovascular stents. In this study, anti-tetrachiral auxetic stents with negative Poisson ratios (NPR) were designed and fabric...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
3,969 Views
14 Pages

27 February 2019

The results of studies on the influence of periodically stacked nanolayer inclusions, introduced into the face-centered cubic (f.c.c.) hard sphere crystal, on Poisson’s ratio of the obtained nanocomposite system are presented. The monolayers ar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,320 Views
11 Pages

Single-Layer MoS2: A Two-Dimensional Material with Negative Poisson’s Ratio

  • Yucheng Zhu,
  • Xiaofei Cao,
  • Yuan Tan,
  • Yao Wang,
  • Jun Hu,
  • Baotong Li and
  • Zhong Chen

26 January 2023

Negative Poisson’s ratio (NPR) materials have broad applications such as heat dissipation, vibration damping, and energy absorption because of their designability, lightweight quality, and high strength ratio. Here, we use first-principles calc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,403 Views
10 Pages

Two-Dimensional Carbon Networks with a Negative Poisson’s Ratio

  • Hao Yuan,
  • Guan Huang,
  • Guangzhao Qin,
  • Lichuan Zhang,
  • Yuee Xie and
  • Yuanping Chen

3 March 2023

Low-dimensional materials with a negative Poisson’s ratio (NPR) have attracted lots of attention for their potential applications in aerospace, defense, etc. Although graphene and monolayer h-BN have been reported to have NPR behavior under ext...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,199 Views
17 Pages

7 October 2022

Auxetic materials are those that exhibit negative Poisson’s ratios. Such a unique property was shown to improve the indentation and impact resistances. Angle-ply composite laminates can be designed to produce negative Poisson’s ratio at t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
81 Citations
12,752 Views
14 Pages

22 February 2013

In this paper, a new kind of hierarchical tube with a negative Poisson’s ratio (NPR) is proposed. The first level tube is constructed by rolling up an auxetic hexagonal honeycomb. Then, the second level tube is produced by substituting the arm of the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,083 Views
17 Pages

26 April 2025

Inspired by Scylla serrata, a novel thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) negative Poisson’s ratio sign-switching metamaterial is proposed, and the corresponding original and gradient structures (i.e., OPSM and GPSM) are created. Numerical simulatio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,686 Views
17 Pages

22 February 2023

The shape memory polymer (SMP) is a new type of smart material that can produce a shape memory effect through the stimulation of the external environment. In this article, the viscoelastic constitutive theory of the shape memory polymer and the mecha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
11,490 Views
10 Pages

Influence of Hygrothermal Aging on Poisson’s Ratio of Thin Injection-Molded Short Glass Fiber-Reinforced PA6

  • Thomas Illing,
  • Heinrich Gotzig,
  • Marcus Schoßig,
  • Christian Bierögel and
  • Wolfgang Grellmann

17 May 2016

The hygrothermal aging of short glass fiber-reinforced polyamide 6 materials (PA6 GF) represents a major problem, especially in thin-walled components, such as in the automotive sector. In this study, therefore, the thickness and the glass fiber cont...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,578 Views
15 Pages

Low Poisson’s Ratio Measurement on Composites Based on DIC and Frequency Analysis on Tensile Tests

  • Luis Felipe-Sesé,
  • Andreas Kenf,
  • Sebastian Schmeer,
  • Elías López-Alba and
  • Francisco Alberto Díaz

16 October 2025

Accurate determination of elastic properties, especially Poisson’s ratio, is crucial for the design and modeling of composite materials. Traditional methods often struggle with low strain measurements and non-uniform strain distributions inhere...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,885 Views
16 Pages

21 June 2021

Aiming at the problems of a complex structure or poor controllability of the existing bearing preload control devices, a method of self-regulation via a negative Poisson’s ratio (NPR) spacer is proposed. Firstly, the principle of preload automatic ad...

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