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Download or read book Auxetic Materials and Structures written by Teik-Cheng Lim and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-12-27 with total page 591 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book lays down the foundation on the mechanics and design of auxetic solids and structures, solids that possess negative Poisson’s ratio. It will benefit two groups of readers: (a) industry practitioners, such as product and structural designers, who need to control mechanical stress distributions using auxetic materials, and (b) academic researchers and students who intend to produce unique mechanical and other physical properties of structures using auxetic materials.