Design and characterisation of a tuneable 3D buckling-induced auxetic metamaterial

Elastic instability has been increasingly used to design buckling-induced auxetic metamaterials. However, only limited patterns of existing three dimensional (3D) buckling-induced auxetic metamaterials exhibit a reliable 3D auxetic behaviour, i.e., the material will contract along two normal lateral directions under compression along the third direction. In this paper, we study a simple geometrical shape for achieving 3D auxetic behaviour. The...