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Foam Structures with a Negative Poisson's Ratio

Roderic S. LakesDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242
1987en
ABI

Abstract

A novel foam structure is presented, which exhibits a negative Poisson's ratio. Such a material expands laterally when stretched, in contrast to ordinary materials.

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