Development of auxetic structures from braided composites produced from basalt fiber

2015-01-01

Magalhães, Rui; Subramani, P.; Rana, Sohel; Fangueiro, Raúl; Oliveira, Daniel V.

Auxetic structures

In this work, novel auxetic structure has been developed from braided composites produced from basalt fiber. The paper reported the auxetic and tensile behavior of the structures produced from basalt fiber and also compared with structures developed from braided composites having glass fiber as core. The basic design is modified with straight rod to improve the strengthening behavior of structure with structural elements. The Poisson’s ratio of the modified structure are studied. The Poisson’s ratio of the structure made from basalt and glass reinforced BCRs are almost similar but the tensile behavior of basalt based structure is good than glass fiber.