Infinitely stiff composite via a rotation-stabilized negative-stiffness phase

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 04 Jul 2011 United States English Publisher:AIP PublishingJournal:Applied Physics Letters, volume 99 (issn: 0003-6951, eissn: 1077-3118,

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Authors: Kochmann, D. M.; Drugan, W. J.;

doi: 10.1063/1.3609328

Infinitely stiff composite via a rotation-stabilized negative-stiffness phase

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Abstract

We show that an elastic composite material having a component with sufficiently negative stiffness to produce positive-infinite composite stiffness can be stabilized by the gyroscopic forces produced by composite rotation.

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University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh
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California Institute of Technology
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composite materials, elastic constants, elasticity, composite materials, elasticity, elastic constants, 530

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