Designing orthotropic materials for negative or zero compressibility

Proposal for a Failure Surface for Orthotropic Composite Materials

Compressibility of air in fibrous materials

Negative compressibility , negative Poisson ’ s ratio , and stability

The role of negative compressibility is considered in detail. Experimental observations of negative bulk modulus in prestrained foam are presented and interpreted. A constrained microscopic model which exhibits negative compressibility is proposed. Some other negative and counterintuitive properties of matter, like negative Poisson’s ratio, negative thermal expansion, negative specific heat, an...

Mechanical metamaterials with negative compressibility transitions.

When tensioned, ordinary materials expand along the direction of the applied force. Here, we explore network concepts to design metamaterials exhibiting negative compressibility transitions, during which a material undergoes contraction when tensioned (or expansion when pressured). Continuous contraction of a material in the same direction of an applied tension, and in response to this tension,...

Negative linear compressibility in confined dilatating systems.

The role of a matrix response to a fluid insertion is analyzed in terms of a perturbation theory and Monte Carlo simulations applied to a hard sphere fluid in a slit of fluctuating density-dependent width. It is demonstrated that a coupling of the fluid-slit repulsion, spatial confinement, and the matrix dilatation acts as an effective fluid-fluid attraction, inducing a pseudocritical state wit...