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Article Dans Une Revue Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences Année : 2014

Stiffest Elastic Networks

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The rigidity of a network of elastic beams crucially depends on the specific details of its structure. We show both numerically and theoretically that there is a class of isotropic networks which are stiffer than any other isotropic network with same density. The elastic moduli of these \textit{stiffest elastic networks} are explicitly given. They constitute upper-bounds which compete or improve the well-known Hashin-Shtrikman bounds. We provide a convenient set of criteria (necessary and sufficient conditions) to identify these networks, and show that their displacement field under uniform loading conditions is affine down to the microscopic scale. Finally, examples of such networks with periodic arrangement are presented, in both two and three dimensions.
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hal-00795361 , version 1 (27-02-2013)

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Gérald Gurtner, Marc Durand. Stiffest Elastic Networks. Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 2014, 470, pp.20130611. ⟨10.1098/rspa.2013.0611⟩. ⟨hal-00795361⟩
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