A bi-material structure with Poisson's ratio tunable from positive to negative via temperature control

In this paper, a two-dimensional quadrilateral cellular structure made from bi-material strips was designed and its thermal deformation behaviors were studied via experimental, analytical and numerical approaches. It has been shown that the cell shape of the structure can be tuned from convex to concave (or vice versa) and hence the Poisson’s ratio from positive to negative (or vice versa) with a change in temperature. At any specific...