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Title:
Metamaterial designs with expansive and auxetic deformations

Speaker:
Ileana Streinu

Abstract:
We discuss, in precise geometric language, the notions of expansive and auxetic deformations for periodic bar-and-joint frameworks. Expansive implies auxetic. In dimension two, expansive periodic structures can be understood in terms of pseudo-triangulations. From this characterization we derive an effective procedure to generate infinitely many planar periodic expansive designs. We also present a few principles to generate infinite auxetic families in higher dimensions. We illustrate these techniques with an abundance of new auxetic blueprints in dimension three, which is most important for metamaterial design.   This is joint work with Ciprian Borcea.

Link:
https://www.msri.org/workshops/900/schedules/24505

Workshop:
MSRI- Hot Topics: Shape and Structure of Materials