Abstract

The paper deals with the problem of design of unit in auxetic metastructure. The unit is modeled as a two-part spring-like system where each part is with individual stiffness. To overcome the problem of analyzing of each of parts separately, the equivalent spring is suggested to be introduced. In the paper, a method for obtaining the equivalent elastic force of the unit is developed. The method is the generalization of the procedure suggested for substitution of a hard and a soft spring in series with an equivalent one. The nonlinearity of original springs is of quadratic order. As a results, it is obtained that the equivalent elastic force for two equal springs remains of the same type as of the original springs (soft or hard). For two opposite type springs in series with equal coefficients, the equivalent force is soft. The method is applicable for any hard and soft nonlinear springs or spring-like systems. Thus the hexagonal auxetic unit which contains a soft and a hard part in series is analyzed. In the paper, a new analytic method for determination of the frequency of vibration for the unit under action of a constant compression force acting along the unit axis is introduced. The method is applied for units which contain two parts: hard–hard, soft–soft, hard–linear, soft–linear and opposite. The obtained approximate vibration results are compared with numerically obtained ones and show good agreement. The advantage of the method is its simplicity as it does not require the nonlinear equation of motion to be solved.

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