If the Poisson's ratio of the material if positive, then tensile/compressive strains in the x-direction produce compressive/tensile strains in the y- and z-directions, as shown below. Negative Poisson ...

Two hundred years on, concepts such as Poisson's ratio continue to provide a good metric for the development of enhanced structural materials. In this focus issue we take a look at some of the ...

General elastomeric substrates are prone to screen distortion due to the "Poisson's ratio" phenomenon, in which stretching in one direction causes the screen to shrink in the vertical direction.