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Symmetry perspectives on some auxetic body-bar frameworks


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Article

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Authors

Fowler, PW 
Guest, SD 
Tarnai, T 

Abstract

Scalar mobility counting rules and their symmetry extensions are reviewed for finite frameworks and also for infinite periodic frameworks of the bar-and-joint, body-joint and body-bar types. A recently published symmetry criterion for the existence of equiauxetic character of an infinite framework is applied to two long known but apparently little studied hinged-hexagon frameworks, and is shown to detect auxetic behaviour in both. In contrast, for double-link frameworks based on triangular and square tessellations, other affine deformations can mix with the isotropic expansion mode.

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Keywords

auxetic, mobility, mechanism, state of self-stress

Journal Title

Symmetry

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Journal ISSN

2073-8994
2073-8994

Volume Title

6

Publisher

MDPI AG
Sponsorship
P.W. Fowler acknowledges support from the Royal Society/Leverhulme Trust in the form of a Senior Research Fellowship for 2013. T. Tarnai is grateful for financial support under OKTA grant K81146.