Poisson's ratio in composite elastic media with rigid rods

Details Poisson's ratio in composite elastic media with rigid rods Poisson's ratio in composite elastic media with rigid rods

2010-01-24

arxiv.org/abs/1001.4242v2

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

4 pages, 4 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev. Lett

Scientific paper

We study the elastic response of composites of rods embedded in elastic media. We calculate the micro-mechanical response functions, and bulk elastic constants as functions of rod density. We find two fixed points for Poisson's ratio with respect to the addition of rods in 3D composites: there is an unstable fixed point for Poisson's ratio=1/2 (an incompressible system) and a stable fixed point for Poisson's ratio=1/4 (a compressible system). We also derive an approximate expression for the elastic constants for arbitrary rod density that yields exact results for both low and high density. These results may help to explain recent experiments [Physical Review Letters 102, 188303 (2009)] that reported compressibility for composites of microtubules in F-actin networks.

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