mechanical metamaterials; mechanical coupling; micropolar elasticity; anisotropic chirality

Anisotropy and chirality create an interesting mechanical coupling – axial-shear coupling. This paper also reports a weak correlation of chirality with negative Poisson’s ratio and a directional negative and positive Poisson’s ratio of a tetra-achiral lattice.

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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264127521000368