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. 2017 Aug 21;7:8949. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-09218-w

Figure 3.

Figure 3

Schematics of the theoretical model of the 3D planar auxetic metamaterial subject to a uniform tensile stress along horizontal stretching: (a) the lattice materials with 5 × 5 unit cells under horizontal stretching is taken as an example to illustrate the model; (b) a representative unit cell is under horizontal stretching and due to the anti-symmetric one corner structure is analyzed; (c) free body diagrams of the corner structure; (d) a curved beam subject to axial forces, shear forces and a moment at the right end.