title: Effect of a negative Poisson ratio in the tension of ceramics.
abstract: The effect of a negative Poisson ratio is experimentally revealed in the tension deformation of a natural layered ceramic. This effect can increase the volume strain energy per unit volume by 1100% and, simultaneously, decrease the deformation strain energy per unit volume by about 44%, so that it effectively enhances the deformation capacity by about 1 order of magnitude in the tension of the material. The present study also shows that the physical mechanisms producing the effect are attributed to the climbing on one another of the nanostructures in the natural material, which provides a guide to the design of synthetic toughening composites.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Nonlinear Mechanics (LNM), Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, People's Republic of China. songf@lnm.imech.ac.cn
authors.forename: Fan
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Song
authors.forename: Junbing
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.forename: Xianghong
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: Yi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: Yilong
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Bai