TY  - EJOU
AU  - Munteanu, Ligia  
AU  - Brisan, Cornel  
AU  - Chiroiu, Veturia  
AU  - Donescu, Stefania 

TI  - On the Compression Viewed as a Geometric Transformation
T2  - Computers, Materials \& Continua

PY  - 2012
VL  - 31
IS  - 2
SN  - 1546-2226

AB  - A modeling of the compression by using the property of Helmholtz equation to be invariant under geometric transformations is presented in this paper. The versatility of the geometric transformations is illustrated in order to obtain a new interpretation of the compression process. The physical spatial compression leads, most of the times, to new materials with inhomogeneous and anisotropic properties. The compression can be theoretically controlled by the geometric transformations. As an example, new architectures for auxetic materials can be built up by applying the geometric transformations. The new versions are finding their full correspondents in the results of the experiments in which the conventional foams are subjected to compressive cyclic loading.
KW  - Compression
KW  -  Geometric transformation
KW  -  Auxetic foams
KW  -  Cosserat theory

DO  - 10.3970/cmc.2012.031.127