TY  - EJOU
AU  - Kaminakis, N.T. 
AU  - Stavroulakis, G.E. 

TI  - Design of auxetic microstructures using topology optimization
T2  - Structural Longevity

PY  - 2012
VL  - 8
IS  - 1
SN  - 1944-6128

AB  - Microstructures can lead to homogeneous materials with negative Poisson’s ratio, the so-called auxetics. An automatic way to create such microstructures
is provided by topology optimization for compliant mechanisms. Nonconvexity is
addressed by a suitable hybrid algorithm, based on differential evolution. This
technique is demonstrated in the present paper with numerical examples.
KW  - Auxetic materials
KW  -  homogenization
KW  -  topology optimization

DO  - 10.3970/sl.2012.008.001